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The volunteers were paid their expenses; the rest of their reward was experience, and it was "soom expeerience," as a Belgian said who was learning a little American slang. They talked about canal-boat cargoes as if they had been from Buffalo to Albany on the Erie Canal for years; they spoke of "my province" and compared bread-lines and the efficiency of local officials.
After the nurse had taken the thermometer from Selwyn and marked his temperature on a chart which she placed beside him, breakfast was brought in, and he was propped up with pillows. 'Guid-mornin', said the Highlander. 'I hope ye're nane the waur o' your expeerience. 'Not 'im, broke in the Cockney, eating his porridge with great relish. 'It done 'im good.
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