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diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index 0bd80fd8..3baada57 100644 --- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -18328,10 +18328,10 @@ Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg your indulgence. Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous -confusion as the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment -during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness may be -related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a fact -which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall. +confusion as to the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry +regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness +may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, +a fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall. This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of my instructions from His Majesty's Government so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains. I construe that perforce it |
