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net about 15 sacs per acre which is very good (exceptionally good) @ $4.50 per sac for 1200 acres. Boo & I will get married yet.
The rice will be harvested in about 10 days. I have a big Winchester & a pump shot gun & am guarding it from fires started 9 times out of 10 by I. W. W. Believe me I would like to pick an I. W. W. in the attempt. All the crops are guaranteed to the gov't. & extreme care is entertained.
The rice industry is great & I have learned a very great deal already. The study of irrigating & the flooding of the rice lands.
By the way, 1st Lieut. Day's wants you to drop him a line. He says he has either lots to tell you or ask you.
Well Edward, dear boy, drop me a line when you can to the above address.
Hoping that you are well & happy and that all is running smoothly.
With love As ever your loving brother, Jocelyn.
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Marsh Field,
Dear Boogoo,
Never mind the headdress. I borrowed the paper. I will return it later. Yes, sir, — we're here at a new flying field and have already lost a whole week of flying. It is so hot here we just drag around and do bunkus fatigus.
It's a shame no one could show you over the island. You know I had left
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last Sunday for Otay Mesa where I flew three days one mile from Mexico. This is an advanced field and we had great short doing thousand foot spirals to a spot directly below. Now I am here in the worst hole in the world. I spent yesterday at Mission Inn, a very beautiful spot in this fearful heat.
That heart business is the bunk. The flight surgeon told me I ought not to fly and to report the next day for a final examination. But that same evening we were all ordered off to this place. I asked the big guns what to do and they said go to March Field and finish the examination here. I was not told to
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report to anybody but to avoid the appearance of evading anything. I told the officer in charge of us and asked him if I should report at hospital.
He said that I could let the thing hang fire for awhile and do nothing. I am content to do this and hope he will forget it all. If no report is sent from North Island, I will go on flying and say nothing. I've done my share and it's up to them to call me if they want to press the matter further.
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I flew Saturday and will fly this afternoon as usual.
But in case they do call me some time soon, I have written to Prof. Richardson at U. C. regarding the Intelligence Service. If I am kicked out here I think that would be interesting work. But while things hang fire, I continue to fly. My heart never bothers me and won't.
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Just returned from a flight. I never felt such bumpy air in my life. All the cadets and some of them are R. M. A.'s say it's suicide to fly here. Some of