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Conger Reynolds correspondence, 1917

1917-10-16 Conger Reynolds to Emily Goodenough Page 2

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for your going there. When are you going to furnish to me the words of that song? On the last day of training camp last summer I heard one of my kamerads singing snatches of it. I fully meant to get the whole thing from him, but something or other detracted my attention until he got away. And I want the Scriptural reference for that story about Saul and Meriam. I think I've read the whole of the Old Book, but the details of the incident you cite have left no impression on my lily white soul. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, he remarked with a sly twinkle in his sly twinklers. Keep on coming, girl, and I'll tell you the story of the cure and the sacristan, yet. I'm almost sane tonight. You notice - I'm writing normally - no bunk or nothin' like that. No good reason can be given. It just happens. Lemme see, what shall he tell her about his perigrinations
 
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