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- P.S, I won thie magnificent prize at an athletic meet of our ambulance at about a month ago. It was first arize
for throwing the baseball. Second prize would have suited me better, a tube of toothpaste.
Prance,
Sept. 13th, 1916.
Howdy folks,-
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That letter advising the sending of those two parcels arrived a week after the parcels did, All were very welcome though. This is my third attempt in three days to write this, the others having been interrupted. Am writing this sitting on the ground with my back against a stable door, but don’t' imagine that will do any more harm than maybe render my writing rather hard to read. However one can’t expect all the comforts of home over here.
Since writing you last our expected iflove has taken place, and we are now in Sunny Prance,, our probable destination being somewhere in the "big push".
Left our farm in Belgium (the farmhouse on which by the way is 400 years old), a week ago,, carrying our full kite. Hit the main road and were then conveyed by ex London Busses to a. station in Pranoe where we entrained. It was a dandy moonlight night and we sure enjoyed the buss trip. Could almost imagine myself chasing along the Strand again. The roads are fine too.
Entrained about midnight in side door Pullmans or in other words, freight cars. Now these cars had just been used to.convey horses and hadn’t been swept out after. We had no implements for such work, so had to spend the night in a highly perfumed atmosphere. Was up at davm though, and had a good look at the country we were passing though. Had a hearty breakfast of dry bread and oheese washed down by water. Passed some swell Chateaus on the way down,, the whole country in fact being fine. Left the train at 10 A.M.
Then the work commenced, as we had to walk about 11 miles carrying our full kit. Now a full kit (weighs from 45 to 50 lbs.
i.e. at first, but I can assure you that it weighed that many tons at the end of the march. The last three miles was all up hill,, end we made it without a rest. We were all just about all in at the finish.
Our dwell ink place for the night was in a barn. They have some great old barns over here. The timbers are hand hewn, always of very hard wood, while the walls usually are made of e mixture of clay and straw, then laid on alia same plaster. After
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