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& reception room. Then put on KP for the rest of the day! Peeling spuds and onions, grinding meal, mopping the floor at night. Also my name is on the Clichy list for tomorrow. Luck will change.
However [deleted]Sat Dec[deleted] A large box of walnuts, chocolate, chewing gum, stick candy, glaced fruit and prunes came from Edna!
Sat Dec 15.
Ben and I worked all day together at the warehouse at Clichy checking and piling
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vises and anvils. Short arm inspection this noon. Poor [deletion] got [cough?] and has gone to the hospital. I felt sure that he had the g. before. I suppose it will mean a court martial. We were going to hear [Faust?] at the Opera tonight. We all feel low Spat & Jimmy staid home on sick call - as they did yesterday.
Sun Dec 16
Missed the [camian?] this morning for Clichy & put in a sick call as best way to get out of it! Embusqui!
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Spat & Jim have the measles^have gone to a French hospital, and we all are quarantined upstairs now. The fact is, I do feel damned rotten myself, but I don’t think it is measles. What a head!
Mon Dec 17
Continuation and intensification. Meat & potatoes & gravy for chow. Inspection of quarters. by a cocky little captain. Salts prescribed for me but none coming up. Headache continues!
Tues Dec 18
In bed most of the
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day. [Wat a woil!?] Had the prunes that Edna sent me stewed and [grady?] and I ate 'em. My only solid food today. Cold and snow by fits. Wrote Spat Jim & Vern.
Wed Dec 19.
Everyday is reception day. "[Terry?] and [Tem?]" come in and [Lance?] and [Lacy?] and the air is thick with smoke and grip germ youmans and [?] I like.
Mon Dec 24
Every day has been like every other. I haven't eaten because the food has
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been nothing but potatoes ad meat and coffee. Jimmy Patten got out the 20th and has been quartered down stairs so that he has bot us fruit, which has been my sole sus[tanance?]. My cold has improved only a little. I was ordered to the hospital but the ambulance didn’t come, and the next day I was a bit better. Today Spat came back and we were released. Ate at YMCA Hotel w. Spat and staid for Xmas trees. Sox w. candy, nuts & cigarets therein.
