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2. he must be patriotic & help me pay for a government bond - but he would have none of it. So I bought a pin for the large sum of $10 which is old & entrancing - & went home more than satisfied. I shall try again. Last Friday I was called to my superior officer's office & requested to take a Spanish examination - you can imagine my sensations! I met an aged man a-setting on a gate, who looked more than severe, & who asked me at once how long I had studied Spanish, whereupon I gaily answered that I had never studied it - couldn't speak or pronounce it, didn't know one
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