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- ie give four patients soup, then "stand to" till they had assimilated sll the nourishment possible from the nutritive beverage.
Then rinse out the cups, and four more men fixed ut>. The same operation over again, with two soups and two teas. I’ll not weary you with any more detail but the same procedure had to be gone through with the puddings, it being one fine old job keeping track of who had eaten, so s.s not to supply a, double header. In between meals, such little jobs as taking temperatures, administering pills, bathing sore eyes, sweeping up, folding blankets, moving stretchers,
etc. kept me "fairly" busy. In fact it kept me on the jump from
8 A.M. to 8 P.M. with hardly a moment to myself. So take it from me that I was mighty glad to come up here today.
Heard yesterday that the kid had lost his "cushy" job, having been sent back to headquarters, Expect he will be up this way in
a week or so. Haven’t seen him for ten days or so, but exnect he
is still in good shape. Did I mention that he has an awful mop of hair now, beside whioh,,the one Gus used to sport, fades into insignificance.
Two parcels from Aunt Penny and Mrs. Pawson arrived yesterday, after having chased all over the country via the old Havre route. They arrived in fine shape and were greatly appreciated. Will try and drop Aunt Penny a letter tomorrow.
Last night was without exception the quietest Hew Year’s eve that I have ever put in. Quit work at eight o’clock, and walked across the road to my billet. The four other fellows had a good grate fire going, end as the night was rather chilly,, the genial warmth emanating from it was "scrumptious". We all gathered around it, and had a regular old "talk feet", discussing everything imaginable under the sun. Before turning in I indulged in a good old lice hunt, my efforts being crowned with success, the hunting bding fine. About 10,JO I commenced to feel sleeay,, so prepared my bed on a stretcher, first taking care to see that it occupied a place on the floor, the appearance of which lead me to think that it might be immerp^d from the rain drops falling from y the ceiling. To ensure a fairly dry bed, in case of a heavy rain fall, I put my waterproof sheet over me instead of under me. Am glad to say though that the rain held off till-this morning. Some life, believe me.
It is five o’clock now and the rest of the gang are making preparations for eupoer. It won’t be a pretentious affair by any means, the probable menu being beans, jam, tea, bread and butter.
The past month we have been having an overdose of plum jam. All the varieties under the sun, packed by different firms, and all thoroughly detested by now. In the words of Bairns father, our cry is "When fell is it going to be etrorberry". Just a word re ^ our Hew Year dinner. The meat wasn't fit to use, so we fell bec^c on bacon and fried bread. It was good, but somewhat different to a home dinner. Oh well.' will make uo for lost time when we get back.
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