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will be done with them. yesterday two Frenchmen in the Hospital (three cots being side by side) both had their left leg cut off, they are all very proud of the fine way the doctors fix them up. so they alway throw back the blankets and want me to look at the good job, so I joked with them (you know I'm quite a joker) and said it was to [[too] bad that both had lost the [[strikethrough]] same[[/strikethrough]] left leg. if one had lost the right leg they could take turns in buying one pair of shoes, then divide. yes they said! they had thought of that but now they would have to buy a pair and always throw one away. so I finely consoled them by saying that since they had never had a pair of shoes maid [[made]] to order they could have one fine shoe maid to order that would last long than two pair. Jim has been with [?] two days. I think he drank two [[too]] much sider [[cider]]. he is alright now. he goes to the hospital also but he is a very sensitive fellow. it takes very little to make him cry so he is crying most of the time when we make the rounds. he has his cigarettes with him and when the wonded [[wounded]] want to show him their beautifull [[sic]] dressed wounds he gives him a cigarette and walks away. four of the American boys that were hurt [?] left yesterday for an American hospital. two more fritz boys, the French ones very short of help [[strikethrough]]and[[/strikethrough]] so sympathy can not be given much in a French hospitalnear the front anyway