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Rare Earth

imagine what I'd have got if it had been Pershing? Of such stuff are we mortals made. We have very good quarters in camp but that is the first I have received so far. . . . We are going to put up a sign, 'Guests are requested not to go AWOL as it necessitates too much work in computing the pay-roll.'. . . At this point I gotta pause long enough to tell you the joyful news. They have made me Company Clerk. It's a swell job. Of course being a General isn't so bad either. There are certain unpatriotic gentlemen such as Scobee Trent and Morris Funk who claim it is a dog-robbin' job. But believe me, Ma, it isn't. Not a single puppy has been victimized by me. Morris Funk has even written a nasty verse about me which everybody is humming:

'Radcliffe Graham
Has been made company clerk
Because he's too darn lazy
To do real work.'

But then Mr. Funk makes rhymes about

everybody. He's worse than Shakespeare. He

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