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 imagine what I'd have got if it had been Pershing? Of such stuff are we mortals made. We have very good quarters in camp but that is the first I have received so far We are going to put up a sign, 'Guests are requested not to go AWOL as it necessitates too much work in computing the pay-roll.' At this point I gotta pause long enough to tell you the joyful news. They have made me Company Clerk. It's a swell job. Of course being a General isn't so bad either. There are certain unpatriotic gentlemen such as Scobee Trent and Morris Funk who claim it is a dog-robbin' job. But believe me, Ma, it isn't. Not a single puppy has been victimized by me. Morris Funk has even written a nasty verse about me which everybody is humming:

But then Mr. Funk makes rhymes about everybody. He's worse than Shakespeare. He