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To: TobagoJack who wrote (62466)4/4/2010 6:13:26 PM
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..... I also succeeded in passing
the preliminary examination for the army while still almost at the bottom of the school. This
examination seemed to have called forth a very special effort on my part, for many boys far
above me in the school failed in it. I also had a piece of good luck. We knew that among oth-
er questions we should be asked to draw from memory a map of some country or other. The
night before by way of final preparation I put the names of all the maps in the atlas into a hat
and drew out New Zealand. I applied my good memory to the geography of that dominion.
Sure enough, the first question in the paper was: “Draw a map of New Zealand.” This was
what is called at Monte Carlo an en plein, and I ought to have been paid thirty-five times my
stake. However, I certainly got paid very high marks for my paper......
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