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changing pressure if I swallow and "blow out" often enough in changing altitude. The greatest effect comes in the glide to the aerodrome after the patrol; this [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] rapid descent keeps the adam's apple 'a' bobbin'!

We'll go up again when the buses get fixed. Lt. Putnam borrowed Lt. Russell's machine (the one I used t'other day [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] to catch German shrapnel) and filled it so full of holes that it is not much good for me, when the machines are ready I suppose we'll go back to the fray, the cannonading of which is dying down. In the counter-attack the Bosche machines ought to be then though. Vive L'Amérique!

Later, Our buses were so worn out that we couldn't return, but the 13th sent patrols as our sister flights did also. It seems as