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that he and Simon could get grip enough to movethe van at all.But I have more than that to tell you ofHawick. We had approachedit on the previousday by way of the Mosspaul Inn. At a telegraphoffice on our road I got down to send adispatch to the Journalist'sfrequent visitorsof nights.Wife one of ourwho was to join us for a coupleWe knew that she would reach Hawickabout twelve o'clock.She was to walk up the valleytill she found thecaravan, but first she was to call at the post officeto see if there was a telegram. Being Mondaythe Postmistress of the office was much preoccupiedwith the wash when I arrived, and Icannot think that she was as successful in keepingher private duties separate from her officialresponsibilities as she might have been : and yetone must sometimes send a telegram on a Monday.Washing operations spread themselves freely overthe room. However I secured a partially dry telegraphform at last and wrote my message hopingfor the best. It was not perhaps to be wonderedat, for it had a poor take-off among the soap-suds,that it reached Hawick in a slightly garbled statewith the name wrongly spelt.We had a great camp in a flat field close to the