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reinforcements have arrived. some of them are old hands, but there are twenty-five men of a later draft.

for the recruits kat produces a tub of meat and haricot beans.

seenthe infants?

for breakfast we had turnip bread, lunch turnip stew, and for supper turnip cutlets and turnip salad.

next time when you come with your mess-tin have a cigar or a chew of tobacco in the other hand, get me?

great guts, kat, how did you come by that?

I traded ginger three pieces of para-chute silk for it.

in civilian life Katczinsky is a cobbler, but he understands all trades.

we couldn’t do without katczinsky. he has a sixth sense. it’s a good thing to be friends with him, as kropp, haie westhus, and I are.

long time since you’ve had any-thing decent to eat, eh?