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- i day! Maybe the rest of the gang weren't jealous, especially when we fell out with the corporals on parade, as for the work we did, well,
I can't answer for Jimmy, but my arduous duties consisted in trying to keep cool at the foot of a slag heap with no shade trees around, and a boiling hot sun on the job.
Took a jaunt up to an aerodrome a half mile from here last, night for want of something better to do. Very interesting watching the planes come end go, especially the preparations for the night’s work of the bombing squadrons. The nights for the last couple of weeks have beenwondetffully cleer, and I'll venture to say thet s good many heinies weren*t able to indulge in their usual undisturbed slumbers.
Had a letter from Drank Grompton a few days ago. He is having a fairly easy time of it, and says he wishes I was over there with him. I can assure you the wish is mutual. He tells me Ernie is to be married this summer to Tammis Cameron, the ex-stenographer at
Prance,
May 27, 1918.
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Have a couple of hoursto put in before supper, and as I failed to get my weekly epistle off yesterday, guess I'd better get busy. Didn't feel like writing yesterday, went sick instead.
Do, nothing serious, just s bunged up ear. Too much accumulation of wax and dirt to be removed by ordinary syringing, so I had perforce to oarry around an esrfull of oil all day. This morning the operation was renewed, and was a. complete success. It is so seldom that a fellow has a chance of washing in hot water that it is not surprising his ears suffer.
Three weeks today since the kid left Liverpool. Surely he ought to be home by now. Am eagerly awaiting your letter informing me of his arrival and his reception. Every day some of the boys are asking me of his whereabouts, so you see he hasn't been forgotten. And by the way, through force of habit, the N.C.O.'s still call out "Game, P.A." on roll cell of A section.
We are in a different section of this fair land from which I last wrote, having shifted afew days ago.. We are now some 15 kilometres back of the line in an extremely picturesque, but rather quiet village. Billeted in a barn as per usual. Hot the cleanest place imagineeble, all the chickens in the neighborhood apparently using it as a happy hunting ground. However there’s plenty of straw on the floor, and with three blankets a fell ow can keep warm.
I must tell you about a great honor that was conferred on Jimmy Park and me a few days ago. It seems that A section had to go out on manoeuvers, and there being an insufficent quantity of H.C.O.'s we were hailed to the orderly room., and invested with the insignia of P.A.L.C. W.R. for the day. I knew I'd get there some ’j
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