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hundred and fifty letters which
my men have written to their
Mamas [?James?] alice and Johns so
that I can now restart a letter
which I began to you Thursday
last, - Thanksgiving Day. We cel-
ebrated it in the regular way -
by stuffing, for the Government
gave point to our thankfulness
with much turkey.

I spent most of the day in
the neighbouring town of X with
Bill Ireland. It is larger than
my own village of y, but the