So Capt. Seeley went out and it seemed like a couple of yrs. till he came back and he had Smith and Lee and Doran with him. So then them 3 birds was up on the carpet and I’ll say they got some panning and when it was all over the Colonel said something about they being a dam site to much kidding back and fourth going on and he hoped that before long we would find out that this war wasn’t no practicle joke and he give Lee and Smith a fierce balling out and he said he would leave Capt. Seeley to deal with them and he would report Doran to the proper quarters and then he was back on me again and he said it looked like I had been the innocent victim of a practicle joke but he says “You are so dam innocent that I figure you are temperately unfit to hold on to a corporal’s warrant so you can consider yourself reduced to the ranks. We can’t have no corporals that if some comedian told them the Germans was now one of our allies they would try and get in the German trenches and shake hands with them.”
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