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our gang formed the head of the queue before the cook-house. we were grow-ing impatient, for the cook paid no attention to us.

there are four of us, joined up from the same class, all nineteen years old...

say, ginger, open up the soup-kitchen. anyone can see the beans are done.

you mustall be here first.

weare allhere.

albert kropp,the clearest thinker among us, a lance corporal.

fredrich mu ̈ller, who still carries his school text books.

peter leer, who has a preference for the girls of the officers' brothel.

and the fourth, myself, paul bA ̈umer.