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when I find out just when I'm coming home. I'll bring everything I can carry and get a hold of. I will try and remember your beads. I've had several chances to buy some sourvenir vases. They were mad out of brass shell cases, with fancy work carved on them by French soldiers. I have a German Officer dress helmet, that I am going to send home tomorrow or the next day. I don't know just how soon I will get back, but I'm hoping that it won't be very long. I saw a clipping out of some paper where General Martin stated that he thought that the 35th would return by spring. We hear a lot of rumours about what the 35th is going to do. One time we'll hear that we're going back to the states, and again we hear that we're going to the border.