Henry S. Jacobs Camp - Chairs of The Jacobs Camp Committee

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“My verse has brought me no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”
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“When the weather is bad as it was yesterday, everybody, almost everybody, feels cross and gloomy. Our thin linen tents—about like a fish seine, the deep mud, the irregular mails, the never to-be-seen paymasters, and “the rest of mankind,” are growled about in “old-soldier” style. But a fine day like today has turned out brightens and cheers us all. We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.”
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