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  • [Centre:] VIII [Upper right annotation:] 15 keenness & that wilder life that we used to occasionally get such as the trip Guy & I made to Sandy River. The wonderful, beckoning mystery of those far away lands & forest - solitudes still has the same appeal to me, - How strange it should be so! Poor old [Guy?] who has become <sup>almost</sup> dumb from disgust at this waste of time & delay dreams & reads of that life at all times (except when he does not think at all of anything, which is a thing that often happens to us when we are "on parade" & the job we have on hand prevents continuous thought & leaves the mind a total blank!) We took to that life out West as tho we had been pre-destined to it, - like ducks to water - & we always showed that love of that sort of enterprise from the begining when we were kids & used to break-up, dig-up & build -up all sorts of things in the house & in the garden. On saturday morning we had a rather intersting firing practice. The whole battalion had to advance over about 1/2 mile of ground, making it in short rushes of a hundered yards or so, & at
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