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else I'll skin my shoulder on the loose ends of the spring of the [[strikethrough]] offices [[/strikethrough]] ^[[bunk]] above me. It's a fact. Why some of the upper berths are cut in two by a ventilator shaft, yet somebody has to sleep in the 4 inches provided between the trunk and the shaft.

In my alley way 26 officers of the American Army are always excusing one another to crowd by to any particular tier, in a passageway which a man cannot stand squarely into without brushing his elbows into the overlapping mattresses on each