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and indulge in a coca cola evey night.
The show is fifteen cents here too,
so I think we do pretty well at that.
Last pay day we went to Salt Lake
and had a big feed, and went to the
show. I mean a few of the best
of us. Of course there are a lot of
the fellows that are broke in one
day after the "ghost walks" - mostly from
playing cards. It's against the rules and
regulations to gamble, but they do it on
the quiet. If they get caught they generally
get about ten days in quarters.

Well, I have just finished dinner
and feel somewhat better. There is an
indoor baseball game (played outside) at
one-thirty, so I will write until then. The
captain chooses one side and the first
lieutenant the other. We have some
fun, as we have a good diamond to
play on, and are all in the same class.

My wrist watch went on the hummer
today, and I feel lost without it. It is
the one Ed Morgan gave me, and it has
kept some time up until today.

In the letter I received from you
yesterday you said Albin McMahon was
exempted until the first of the year. I
see the Standard of Monday says he is