Dear Dad:- What is wrong you old buggar, don't the bootleggers keep any beer anymore. Maybe I had better start sending beer to you. I don't think that you would like it very much though as it is pretty gassy stuff. I am strictly a beer drinker now as the last time I drank this whiskey I ended up in a very nice cosy English gutter and although that is a very common place to find a Canadian it seems I didn't enjoy it much. So for the past month have left whisky strictly alone and I feel much better for it. I haven't much news this time except for my train journey to Leeds o my night off. It only takes a ½ hour ordinarily but we took 3 ½ hours that night. The older engine bust it s bladder of something so we had to wait for another engine. The skipper & I got to Leeds at ten minutes to ten and left at half past. Boy were we mad, when we couldn't even get a drink. On the whole we spent a very poor night and ended up by walking ten miles back to camp. Whish to hell I would get a chance at driving the old bus you have as I am getting to be a real demon for speed these days. It sure makes me happy when I see the old air speed around three hundred these days. I do quite a little pilot's work now opening the throttles and reducing [?] and all that sort of stuff. I think I will buy one of these engines after the war and put it in some old [?] I bet she would really beam up the road then. The really are a damn good engine we are damn glad that they are to. I see by your letter that you are in still making things move what with having no money and no bills you are sure doing all right. Say that is quite the girl friend Cecil has got but I think that Leonard is trying to horn in on him. Now that Leonard is in the same racket now I guess I will have to drop him a line once in a while. I got a letter from Mel to-day telling him where I could meet him on my leave. But it came to late as I have been back nearly two weeks. We just can't seem to get to-gether at all but we will keep trying, maybe I will be able to hold my [?] next time. Well I will see about finishing off the blasted war and maybe drop in on you some day [?] like as if you see a drunken old [?] coming down the street don't pass him by because it will be yours truly Orval