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Not your Bible?

Yeh. They’ll steal anything, in the army.

Why, I never hyeard o’ sich a thing! An’ you went through the whole war like a heathen, ’thout so much as a Testyment?

The Baptis’ preacher here said they ’us men over thar a-givin’ ’em away to anybody ’at wanted ’em.

Yeh, but they never got up whar we wus till after the fightin’ ’us over. An’ I didn’t need one so bad then.

[Outside in the distance]

Hello!

That’s Andy ’ith the mail!

[Goes to the door and waves to him]

H’lo, Andy!