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    Don't you make fun of my choice & taste in clothes.  You just ask me to get you some 'long j????' & see what lovely 'chick' things I'll get -& as for hats - - why, they'd just be the very limit - I mean the very last word in hats (I bet they would too)
     Well, here I am doing damn all & getting paid for it too by the Canadian Govt- funny isn't it?  Never had such a lazy time in my life, no work, no worry, no girls, no nothing - my mind is more of a blank than usual & that is just going some, believe me.
    Well, lots of funny things have happened since my last letter - By the bye my writing is absolutely fist class - a damn bad pen, a damn rotten piece of paper, damn writing ink, a damn full stomach (eaten too much dinner) & a damn awful thirst are not conducive to copper plate work, eh.  Well my next letter will be the real thing.
    Anyhow to return - I think I told you I was taking a Staff Course believing that to be the best way to get to France, but a month after it had started a new idea was invented by Sam.   It is rumoured