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soon, and I will visit her
relatives. I should have done
it long ago, but I keep putting
it off. Just think we have
been here close on to two
months. I will have more money
next pay day as I will not have
insurance to worry about.

You asked me about a month
ago what a poncho is. It is a
rubber coat that we wear when
it rains.

I am enclosing a porcupine
quill taking from a porcupine by
one of the fellows from one of the
detachments about twenty miles from
here. They say they are thick around
where there were. I am also enclosing
a menu our second cook put on the
table. Show it mama and papa.
I wrote a letter to mama a few days
after I got your letter. That was news to me.

Love from
"Duke"