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our letter reminded me, to my enormous shame, how much I have
neglected my duty to write to you. It was really disgraceful of me and
there is no excuse whatever for this crime. So I'm setting to work
immediately and replying to your nice letter which I received the day
before yesterday. I had a dose of cannon fever yesterday. What happened
was this: I was very unwell and felt really weak the whole morning and
was then ordered to artillery practice and was nearly laid out at the
gun, so I
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