Stretcher Bearers at the Double - ElectricCanadian.com

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explain one of the half-circles ow "This is you myke this circle.
:
You commence at Eyetch, gow to Hye, then on to Kye - - owmitting
Jye."
The fellows used to ask Pick, over and over again,
to explain that H. to I. to K. detail - -just to hear him say it!
Horseback-riding parties, poker games, whist, and charabanc
jaunts to London, Canterbury and Dover were the diversions our
officers seemed to enjoy most. Those riding jaunts with the
robust young lady from a nearby estate seemed to head their list
of attractions, though, and we would not like to repeat the
language our Horse Transport lads used when, midnight after
midnight, they were called upon to rub down two tired and
lathery horses and polish two sweat-soaked saddles.
The songs most popular among us during our stay in England
were "Thora,"
"I Hear You Calling,"
"When We ve Wound
Up the Watch on the Rhine," and "Keep
the Home Fires Burn
The last-named ing." song was the most popular of all. Most of
the regimental bands played
it and it was the one song that
struck a responsive chord in Colonel Farmer s heart, and would
invariably bring tears into his eyes. It was, as a matter of fact,
often referred to as "the Old Man s tune."
Those who boasted Irish blood - - Frank O Leary, Dean Wilkins,
Husband, Cascaden, and others - - went on leave to Ire
land. The Scots - -Jimmy Henderson, the Lickley boys, Jimmy
and Jock McLean, Jock McLaren, and others who were Scotch by
contamination or by absorption, went to Scotland. We don t
know what they did there, besides drinking heather-dew, eating
haggis and swallowing bagpipes, but we do know that Hender
son s trip, at least, was an unqualified success; for he met, wooed,
won, and ultimately married the talented young lady who
attracted customers to the Blairgowrie chemist s shop.
The Lancashire lads, Jimmy Shorrocks, Billy Moore, Arthur
Wood, Dudley, and all the rest of those sturdy Lancastrians, took
their seven days of leave to Bolton, Wigan, Manchester and other
places in the Lancashire and Yorkshire counties.
On Leave in London**?
The Canucks, with the exception of a few who went to Ire
land, Scotland, Wales or other parts of England, spent their
leaves in London. The old Leicester Lounge, Piccadilly, the