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one the Chemes des Dames
night before last.

Saturday Oct. 13 '17.

Worked on car. -- Dick
Sias and Ernie De Chane
left at 5 o'clock this morning
for Paris. Got their orders
to go at 1 A.M. Dick got
a second lieut. and Ernie
a first lieut. in artilery [artillery].
There are twenty two of the
original fourty [forty] two left.
Hope the rest of us go soon.

Sunday Oct. 14 '17.

En repos. Went to the
Y.M.C.A. tent in the evening
to a band concert. Very good
band. Reminded me of S.F. 1915.
It was just as cold. Two Americans
were very good on the piano
and mandolin.