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� April 8 continued Catlett's Station. Va.

Great life this, most surely.

9.

We are still at the same old place in the grocery store eating Joe's meals as he prepares them, now of mutton and now of ham intermingled with the usual supply of potatoes, bread and coffee. The rain continues to drizzle down making life out doors peculiarly disagreeable. As to business we do simply nothing. Reading, playing checkers, joking, singing, flute playing and violin playing seems to be about everything we[inserted] do. As I now write Capt. Rodgers sits leaning back in his chair playing