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My handkerchiefs arrived the other
day. I wonder where they found
them. I have not been home since;
I would have gone this weekend
but the Colonel of the Battalion
came to inspect us yesterday,
and our chaplain to preach to us
to-day, and so no week-end passes
were allowed. The Chaplain is
certainly some speaker; he is a
former presbyterian minister of
Parkhill.

We had our first route march
last week, when we marched to
Beechwood and back, a total distance
of twenty-one miles. I felt fine, but
it got some of them. There is
nothing at Beechwood but
a Presbyterian church and an

Page 3
My handkerchiefs arrived the other
day. I wonder where they found
them. I have not been home since;
I would have gone this weekend
but the Colonel of the Battalion
came to inspect us yesterday,
and our chaplain to preach to us
to-day, and so no week-end passes
were allowed. The Chaplain is
certainly some speaker; he is a
former presbyterian minister of
Parkhill.

We had our first route march
last week, when we marched to
Beechwood and back, a total distance
of twenty-one miles. I felt fine, but
it got some of them. There is
nothing at Beechwood but
a Presbyterian church and an