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earning your respect. I'll remember you. My morale is ace high thanks to you mostly, and to more (than usual) encouraging letters from Hazel, Phyl & home. You have no idea how much your love strengthens me to do the manlything, & disdain any thoughts of avoiding my ^duty. Some of our N.G. boys speak French - or are supposed to. The captain asked of one mission scholar, "Garcons, avec vous une plume"? He hardly got the reply he expected. Says the boy, "No got master - pencil das all".