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We will get our letters better now and also much quicker. I am writing here in a crowded room; just looked up and saw Will Dodge, the painter, but he is lost in the Pushwill. I will look him up later.
  So Paul and Paget are going to build a house over the old ?? Hope it will be a good one. My, I think you three are going great.. I hope you will count me in on your bunch when I come back. Won't you let me in on your moneymaking schemes. I must confess that since being over here, I have been dead to everything except war and with your great help, I have done alittle something for the soldiers well and good. 
  So you have been demobilized Paul. That is what all the boys are talking about over here all the time. The next six weeks will shows a tremendous reduction in the Army. 
  Next month I will send alittle money so that you can have the farm work done well and in good time. It is better to have it plowed  well and planted well and in good time. And since I cannot be there to help you, I will send you enough to pay for proper help. I think I can save enough to help you and Monk. You are certainly doing fine with your school and horses. I am sure you are going to show me a wonderful stable of horses when I come back. And what a fine wife you are. I think it will be just as well for you to let Zucker settle with the man about the cow and not you bother about it since she will have no calf and soon she will give no milk. You would be worse off than ever. It is quite wet in Paris now. I told you in my last letter that I saw Anne Rumbeau. She is looking fine and now that I will be near Paris, I will see her when I can. I had a little note from

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