O. J. L.—Have you any special message, or did you give Case a special message?
Yes.
O. J. L.—What was it?
SO IM NOT SO IM WUO
(Here some confusion was indicated; and M. F. A. L. said, "Try and spell the name"—meaning for whom the message was, if it was a message that was intended, which was very doubtful.
It seemed to me that he was trying to say, or remember, what he had said to Lieutenant Case, who saw him after he had been struck; and that what he thought he had said was "So I'm wounded"; but I thought it unadvisable to continue on this tack, and rather regretted that I had begun it, since it was liable to put him back into a period of reminiscence which his friends would prefer that he did not dwell upon. Moreover, these last few questions did not seem particularly to interest him, and the responses were comparatively weak. Accordingly, I decided to switch him on to a topic that would be more likely to interest him.)
O. J. L.—Would you like your mother to go and see a friend of yours?
(Some names of friends of his were now correctly given, but as we knew them I need not reproduce this part.)
O. J. L.—I say, Raymond, would you like a Ford? [motor].