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course intend to land them a licking;.
Took a jaunt in an ambulance yesterday with our padre to Y hqrs. where I succeeded in getting a complete ball equipment,and I can assure you that they’ll have a tough job prying us loose from it this time. The padre, by the way, is an ex-professor of history in the University of Saskatchewan, and incidently is the founder of "Vimy University", which later, he tells me, is laying low while Pritz is cutting his pranks.
Am enclosing a menu, which explains itself. Davy gave it to me, end I am handing it on. The names on the right of the menu are all well known to we old timers among the bohunk stretcher . ? t bearers. As for the "zebras", well, only about eight of them have ever been above hqrs. so they are sailing under false colors Then trying to kidthemselves that these historic places mean anything to them. With one exception, all these "zebras" are originals of the unit. Mighty hard to kill off-- sergeants, tho we did lose one at Vimy and another at Passchendaele.
Received a card from Charlie Lundy yesterday.. He has been moved to a convalescent camp, where he expects to stay for a month or so. Also heard from Jock levoy, he has been shipped to a con. camp too. Losing quite a few of the old hands these days. Don’t think there are more than thirty original stretcher bearers left,.
Ilott went down to C.C.S. with trench fever a few days ago, and ought to make Blighty. He has a wife and kid in Calgary so I hope he sticks there.
Met a couple of engineers this morning Tho were down in
ITice at the same time we were. Had quite a talk over the g>od times
we had down there. Leave is out of the question these days, it being
closed down tight as a drum, and no prospects of it opening again for
some time to come.
Another Canadian mail should be along; shortly, none having come in since my last. How that the kid has left Blighty, my days for mail will be curtailed somewhat, for outside of Lundy and Prank Crompton and an occasional letter from Mr. Brayne, I have no correspondents over there. The old country fellows have it all over we native Canucks in that respect at any rate.
The weather isn’-t anything to boast about these days,being somewhat chilly, Quite a breeze blowing today too, which doesn't helpmettere any. Hope it clears up before we go back in the line
again which latter event can’t be far off now. Tickled at the prospect naturally,’
A poker game is going on in the billet tonight, so instead of sitting on "the" bench, and writing on a rickety table, I’m sitting on my greatcoat with my back against a wall, and a petrol can on my knees for a desk. I know my right leg is asleep, and am fairly certain •that my rear end must be calloused by this time,- so the quicker I tear
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