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LIFE OX 1HB MISSISSIPPI.

no risk, which I would decline.    I became the willing butt of their
jokes i this perfected my popularity; I became a favourite.
I early found a private who lacked a thumb—what joy it was to

me! And when I found
that he alone, of all the
company, had lost a thumb,
my last misgiving vanished,
I was sure I was on the
right track. This man's
name was Krager, a Ger-
man. There were nine
Germans in the company. I watched, to see who might be his inti-
mates ; but he seemed to have no especial intimates. But / was his
Intimate; and I took care to make the intimacy grow. Sometimes
I so hungered for my revenge that I could hardly restrain myself