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a year to come here to enlist.
His home is two miles in the country
from here. Now his only brother at
home has enlisted, and that leaves
the father, and old man, and mother
and two sisters to run the farm.

Two young men, farmers outside
of parkhill who each owned their
farms, sold them and enlisted.

On the other hand there are those
who ought to enlist but who
don't. So you see how things
go.

The English Church gave us
a card party the other night and
an oyster supper (of course I enjoyed
the oysters). But you see how
Parkhill uses the boys in Khaki.
They use us too well. It will