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Dear Mither & Dad

Well here it is Sunday again and as the Canadian mail leaves tomorrow I had better get busy and write a letter or two. We are having quite a time over here they had us doing route marches all week and then Sat. afternoon we had a bunch of tents to put up for the fellows who are away on leave to go into tonight. The huts they were in are under quarantine for measles. This morning we had more tents to go up and this afternoon we have to fill some ticks for em. I am sorry or sore I should say for it is about the first real nice day we have had and we can't get out to see the place. The worst of it is there are only about 25 of us to do the work and half of them don't know how to work while about 1/4 of them are N.C.O.s & don't work....News is very scarce over here for when one don't know anyone outside the army it gets rather stale and any way I don't feel in the right humor for writing today. That is I am neither up in the air or feeling grumpy or blue. I believe I can write best when I am blue for there is very little to write about that is not along the blue line even the sea is blue. Also as you will note the note paper is blue. That sound very much like rubbish but I have to fill these pages some way or another and besides I don't like this blue note paper as it has such a blue note to it and so want to use it up as you will note.