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As for myself I thank you most heartily, and compliment you for your thoughtfullness in sending the Cherry Bounse bottle. You should have seen the fun that Billy Smith, and myself had about midnight after receiving it, he was quite boisterous when the Officer of the day (Lt. Spaulding) came in and not in very good humor either and said this noise must be stoped. As I happened to know his failing was confident he could be bought over by a little persuasion so I shook the bottle at him which made him run, which [illegible] you may imagine for yourself. Suffice it to say that there was no bounce left when we quit. Thursday Morn We are