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Excerpt from Three Years Behind the Guns, the True Chronicles of a Diddy-Box We stripped, and went through an examination that was first cousin to hazing Some he kept longer than others; and when I saw a bulky Irish man, who weighed one hundred and eighty, come back with his card marked Rejected, I thought of my one hundred and thirty-two pounds, and my heart sank. But of the ten only three were accepted, and I am one of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.