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and we have had it fixed on a rifle and expect great things from it. Sniping is not much good without them, because you see a loophole, or something, through your glasses, but when you try to line it up through your sights, you cannot see anything. I am glad the weather prophets say we are to have dry weather, so far there have been no signs of it. Occasionally we go on parade under a fine clear sky, and get soaked through before we get back. You have no idea how welcome any little delicacies are out here. I have given up caring for useful things. They are too darn heavy to carry. Just saw a touching sight in the yard, half the Company, with their shirts off, "Snipe" hunting. Well I must go and wash my spare pair of socks - an operation which I hate.

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 10 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected letters from Sergeant John Raymond McIllree, 1915.