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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January 1918
1918-01-25 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 8
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every now and then being shaken like Fido's rat through the vibrating of the ship when the screw whirrs out of water. Naturally there has been a lot of sea-sickness. Anyway half the voyageurs have suffered -- some of them pretty severely. I went down to see poor old Bryan t'other morning. "Are you very sick, mon?" sez I. "No," sez 'e, "but I'm afraid to get up for fear I'll lose the two apples I had for breakfast." Just as I came in the library to write I saw Joachim in a chair in the companionway. Joachim was in my squad at Fort Snelling last summer. Chance has thrown us together again for the crossing. He has been sick all the way. I paused this evening to ask him how he was. He looked at me as if
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every now and then being shaken like Fido's rat through the vibrating of the ship when the screw whirrs out of water. Naturally there has been a lot of sea-sickness. Anyway half the voyageurs have suffered -- some of them pretty severely. I went down to see poor old Bryan t'other morning. "Are you very sick, mon?" sez I. "No," sez 'e, "but I'm afraid to get up for fear I'll lose the two apples I had for breakfast." Just as I came in the library to write I saw Joachim in a chair in the companionway. Joachim was in my squad at Fort Snelling last summer. Chance has thrown us together again for the crossing. He has been sick all the way. I paused this evening to ask him how he was. He looked at me as if
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