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The Corporal warned me to mount guard next morning. My firelock was not clean and I gave it & my accoutrements to a black fellow in the Barracks to clean them. Bringing it away about 2 o’clock I pd the man for cleaning it. I was drunk, having been drinking all the fore part of the [the?] Day, and had a firelock &c upstairs & threw them down on my Cot. Being warned I came
down