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Don't otten you or the rose! I stole it fro Chuck, and I had a fight with Hal Wainwright over it which alot h with it Hal told his mother and she took it to the school board I was a pretty tough little rascal in those days I guess and no doubt needed sos myself occasionally But I reot back to school that day and ca the rose init on your desk I never drea to you It was onlylike a rose yourself, just dropped down out of heaven you know, you were so little and pink and gold with such great blue eyes Pardonhobbledehoy's admiration, do you? You were only a baby; but I would have licked any boy in town that lifted a word or a finger against you And to think you really needed my help! It certainly would have lifted me above the clouds to have known it then!

And now about this war business Of course it is a rough job, and so to doout of it to be called a knight, and I guess I'll look at it a little more respectfully now If a life like s those Gerive it I've sized it up that afor the world anyhow he planned it than to make the world safe for a life like yours; so me for what they call "the supreme sacrifice," and it won't be any sacrifice at all if it helps you!

No, I haven't got a sweater or those other things that go with those that you talk about Mother hasn't tiuess you know if you know me at all Or perhaps you don't But anyhow I'd be wonderfully pleased to wear a sweater that you knit, although it see for you to do foris your job in this war, and I wouldn't be robbing any other better fellow, I certainly would just love to have it