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however is not always so sparing in his layout. Yesterday for dinner altho he knew Lt. Beck was going to dine out he had enough set out before me to feed a small regiment------this part of the letter you can read to Robert and Edie and perhaps they will be able to get up a laugh at it - Tell them also "that" I counted twenty goats in one herd this morning - just back of my quarters - and that it was not a very good morning for goats either - Tell them also that the swallows and martins have taken possession of the Officer's Quarters and built a great many nests under the porch and during the day they keep a continual fluttering and