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Robbed & also Serjt Ross who was much hurt. A few days after, perhaps 7, on a Sunday morning I was going to the Surgeon, Thomas Burn, the pris spoke to me at the Surgeon’s door, & said he wanted to speak to me if I would call on him, after I had been to the Surgeon, in the Barracks of the 3d Regiment. I did so. He asked me if I would buy a pair of silver Buckles – he said at first (when we parted at the Surgeon’s door) that they had been not honestly come by. Afterwards he said they had been won by toping. I said I wod