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[Chuckles]

Oh, I see! Like the man by playin’ the fiddle: he’d seed it done! Well, them army doctors wouldn’t ha’ been so pertickler, jedgin’ by some o’ the samples I seen that got by ’em.

I hyeard they let the bars down toward the end. But I’d jist as soon stay out of a fight if I cain’t git in tell it’s over.

That’s the best time to git in.

[Looks at him in surprise]

Didn’t you like fightin’? One o’ the papers here said as how you took to it like a fish to water.

[Laughs ironically]

Shore I did! It ’us pie to me!

That’s another lie, Sid! [ laughs.]

Well, I reckon a man can have too much o’ anything. But I b’lieve I’d like war if I had the health to stand