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to sit on, a table to ear from, and a bed to sleep on. In my tent there are two besides myself Wm Perrin, and Orville Paddock, each of us have a piece of tent cloth six feet square, two of these pieces are buttoned together at the ends and stretched over a pole, so as to look like the roof of a house with the third piece we fill up one end of the tent, and then for the other ent we use a Rubber Blanket, in this way we have a house big enough to crawl into but not big enough to stand up in, then when we go on a march each man takes his piece of tent, his Rubber, and Woolen Blanket and rolls them up in his Knapsack with all his cloths, so that when we stop at night we can have our house built and ready to go bed in a half hour after stoping, beside this