invaluable to the squadron and I feel that i should not quit while I am perfectly fit to carry on. However, I don't think I shall want to stay more than nine months altogether. Then I may get Canadian leave I met a chap from Vancouver the other day in London, who is going home on the leave and his return fare is costing him in all just [?]30- which is less than $150- so I think I shall have to try very hard to get that home leave. I think, after a long period in France, they might let me have it. Do you know, I think one of the mail ships much have been sunk on the way over here, for I have no Canadian mail for a month. I do not remember ever having gone so long without before. Consequently I do not know anything of what you have been doing lately. Dad, I suppose, is home from the summer's work.