Everyone on the bench was looking off the field, somewhere-even Owen, now-and I turned my attention to the intriguing object of their interest. The fatigues looked authentic, but the boy was clearly not old enough to serve and he was hardly in a proper uniform-on his big feet, h Although Owen later suggested this use for it, he admitted it was more practical as a doorstop. either Owen or I thought was possible-and their nipples were blocked from view by the censor's black slashes.
Major General LaHoad had congratulated Owen personally. He never drank very much of it-I never saw him get drunk, not before Basic Training-but Hester remarked that the beer vastly improved his disposition. Once someone hooked him by bis collar to a coat tree in the elementary school auditorium; even then, even there, Owen didn't struggle. Dan was sure that Dickens would have disapproved.
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