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Dear Dosia:

Very many thanks for your (2nd?) letter. I am sorry that I have not written for so long, but I have been (stopped out?) for some little time, but am quite alright again. (???) (?) job going sick with the temperature anything (?) 95 degrees or 100 degrees in the shade. When you are gas training with heat and have kicked all your (? leathers?) off, the (?) comes along and calls you that you must keep warm. Weds (matthing?) but bathe all day now, having rigged up a dining board, an aerial railway as a chute. The aerial railway is great fun. You start off about 50 feet above the water and rush down and let go when you are about 10 feet above the water, you get a splendid splash. The beauty of it is that once you have started you cannot (funh?), as if you do you will have your half badly by coming up against a (stack?) bulkhead. The chute is also amusing as you can maneuver the curtain if the chute will (freeform?) to remain in it's proper place or come with you, it is comes with you. you have to keep under water until it is finished plunging about or you will get some smack on your head. The water is beautifully clear, you can see bottom in 25 (fartham?), so you only have to remainwell down and watch the flank. I have been to (Satanika?) and ran across some of the (sisters?) of the 12th Canadian field hospital, the only ones that I must -