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it to a good use by getting me a Christmas dinner. I had Roast Turkey and Pig, Plum Pudding and Mince Pie with plenty of common eatables to go with it, so that I had what we call a staveing good dinner. Notwithstanding the dinner the day seemed very lonely to me, quite a contrast to the excitement we had at Millikens Bend one year ago drawn up in line of battle, every minute expecting an attack that day to I had a good dinner but did not have to buy it, that was the time that I go a swelled eye while robing a bee hive, those days of forageing are over for the present, and we have to be Sober as judges, for fear of getting a year at Ship Island. Yesterday we had a violent rain storm, the street front of our door they could not drive the Horse any faster than a walk for it was knee