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and there is our leader, stanislaus Katczinsky, who we call kat. shrewd, cunning and hard-bitten, forty years of age, with a face of the soil, and a remarkable nose for dirty weather, good food, and soft jobs.

butwhere are the others?

they won’t befed by you today. they’re either in the dressing sta-tion or pushing up daisies.

we are here with our friends of the same age, tjaden, a lock-smith, the biggest eater of the company.

big haie westhus, a peat digger before the war.

detering, a peasant, who thinks of nothing but his farmyard and his wife.

but this won’t do! I have food for 150 men!

look kat!

they have har-riCot beans and sausage.

and bread and tobacco!

then we’ll have enough for a change.

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