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l'il ol' winter?" Beats me!

I was lucky in having Lieutenant Bates along though. He rejuvenated my downcast faith in the army doctor. He is very businesslike and a practitioner with much success in pneumonia, grippes,  and typhoid. I explained that I'd like to get well quickly. He said, "All right, you will." And by thunder he gave me pills to bring my fever down and medecine to cut the aches from my body, and in six hours I was very much improved and after 50 odd hours I am trying to gain back my strength with some building-up solution he prescribed. And today, just a week from New York we are very near England and likely to meet our convoy at any moment; a calmer sea is running outside; a beautiful sun dispels any gloom; I feel more