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We spend much time together, as I am acting censor and he 

 has to lick down all the letters. This morning, having got very 

 intimate, we exchanged photographs of our wives and families. 

 Amongst other sundries he has been blessed with two pairs of 

 twins ! " 



From this I gather the exchange was hardly equal, as Mr. 

 Inglis had only three bairns. 



July 17.—" Our Chapel is a perfectly bare room, or was at 

 first. A trestle table is being moved in as an Altar and some 

 benches by way of ecclesiastical furniture. Our services to- 

 morrow are at 5.15 a.m., 6.30 a.m., 10.30 a.m., and 6 p.m. . . . 

 Have just heard I am to be attached to a brigade, which is work 

 I like, as it gives me a better chance of getting to know the men." 



July 18. — "I have had quite a busy Sunday. Celebrations 

 at 5.15 and 6.30, and at 10.30 a service for the patients. It was 

 such a nice service ; we expected thirty or forty and had only 

 seats for that number, but we had one hundred and fifty patients 

 and had to go about collecting seats for them, as most of them 

 were not fit to stand. I started the hymns ; they went with 

 great gusto. You might tell — — we shall hardly require the 

 organ when I come back, as I shall be able to do it myself ! On 

 second thoughts perhaps my efforts were not so successful, for 

 after the service one of the nurses came and offered me twenty 

 dollars towards the purchase of a harmonium. We made the 

 Altar quite nice for the early Celebrations. The frontal was 

 turkey-twill off a patient's screen, and the candlesticks just 

 bedroom candlesticks. The flowers were Dorothy Perkins. 

 They were put on the Altar by a Roman Catholic matron who 

 was doing her own Altar at the other end of the room. They 

 did not agree very well with the turkey-twill, but we are not 

 very particular over these things here. . . . The men are so 

 nice and say such funny things ; one man to-day said he was 

 suffering from ' Diagnosis,' but he got better of that. . . . 



July 20. — " Yesterday they had an extraordinary opera- 

 tion. They extracted a bullet from a man, and there was 

 something behind it, so they went on and took out a penny 

 which had been driven in by the bullet. It had saved the man's 

 life, as it was pressing against an important artery which the 



