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new engine tuned up. It seems all right and will no doubt be so when I get opportunity to go up with it.

While waiting for final adjustments on the engine and gun I am reveling in a series of Saturday Evening Posts which we lately obtained from the Red Cross. Many of the stories being published at this period of America in the War are concerned with "us". That is to say: Irving Cobb ^[[Major Bishop,]] and half a dozen writers are giving pictures of what's doing [[strikethrough]] over [[/strikethrough]] ^[[two miles above]] the Front. We regard most of the articles about aviators as "[[Cull?]]" ^[[(née "trash")]] but some of them are good true-to-life accounts. The British bombers and Cobb have the right idea. I knew those boys; (I trained with a lot of them) and they have been doing [[underline]] great [[/underline]] work in the Rhine towns just north of here, Both at night and during the daytime. Those Britishers go over any night, while [[strikethrough]] we get[[/strikethrough]] the Huns ^[[come over]]