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floor two days after I came in.

The food continues to be next to bad; the floor of the lavatory is flooded with water; men are allowed to run around and do as they please; all requests and little attentions are denied; we one and all pray to be delivered from the loving (?) care of the doctors!

The boys themselves take these encounters good naturedly. They swear a great deal in passing the time of day. Ribald stories are rife at certain times. Many of them show a shallow character in the stories of their base conquests. Some break the quiet periods that enter the room by bursts of racking choking, or nerve-rending snoring. Yet for all the things they are, or are not, they are generous and sympathetic. They share every Christmas box that comes in and