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A hospital is much the same anywhere, and number 13 General at Etaples / was no exception. On each side of the big marquee ran a row of beds in / perfect dressing. The sheets were turned down on the design so ably / portrayed in the War Office Sealed Pattern X. B.451. -- "Method of turning / down sheets on Beds Hospital. " On "Beds Barrack" the method is / slightly different and is just as ably shown on Sealed pattern X. B.452. / During moments of intense depression one is apt to fear the war-winning / properties of X. B.451 and 452 have not been sufficiently appreciated by / an unintelligent public.
The period of strain incurred on entrance was over as far as Vane was / concerned. For the sixth time since leaving his battalion he had, in a / confidential aside, informed a minion of the B. A. M. O. that he was a Wee / Free Presbyterian Congregationalist; and for the sixth time the worthy / recipient of this news had retired to consult War Office Sealed List of / Religions A. F.31 to find out if he was entitled to be anything of the / sort. In each case the answer had been in the negative, and Vane had / been entered as "Other Denominations" and regarded with suspicion. One / stout sergeant had even gone so far as to attempt to convert him to / Unitarianism; another showed him the list, and asked him to take his / choice.