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ago. Soldiers in foreign
countries get extra pay. They
surely aught [ought] to give us
extra pay here as this is
worse than a foreign
country.

Non-coms and all
have to work here now.
We took down all the
condemned tents yesterday
and one of them happened
to be the tent four of
us corporals are in. We
have no tent at all now
and it is sprinkling here
tonight, but we haven't
enough ambition to put
up a tent. This is some
climate here. Yesterday
it was so hot as ....,.,.-,,
,-,, (I explained how hot it
was by the General Service
Code). I do not know
whether you can make it