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very funny baning the crowd to keep them back. marched home : dinner : went down bazaar & got my cushions for 50 diasters : roamed round : shouted Gypo Shea : quoice kateera mint flavour : tea : wrote & read & thought till bed time :
Thursday March 2nd
dirty dusty day : up at 7 am,BK fell in 7.45 am & marched to our beat : shouted pea-nuts by the Greek whose shop the "mad man" was mucking up in yesterday. Our coastguard friend showed us his girls photo : a real beauty : a white veiler & he said she loved him very much : told us a lot about veils & customs : kiss : kids round the museum amuse us every day also the escarri's : native love sincere : black maria & man coming out of jail also blind men : came home : dinner : wrote letters & done up cushion covers : tea : posted covers to Ollie : got some information from first years course of Egyption History (College) : Cheops 830 ft square 25.000.000 blocks 725 ft high : 360.000 men 20 years to build : Sphynx partially cut from solid rock : 100 ft long went to Y.M.C.A. : good night : good boxing wrestling & pictures : free cigarettes came home : bed : hot close night : weather getting warm Jim Donnelly is now at the Esbekiak Y.M.C.A. boxed well :
Friday March 3rd
close day : up 6.30 am : breakfast : fellin 7.45 am & marched to our beat : more pea nuts : noses & legs : beggars : came home ; Dinner : found more chats : amusing this morning to see 10 of our mob sitting up in bed chatting : shower & wrote in afternoon : tea : posted letters then bed : seen a ptiful sight a woman & three kids sleep on hard asphalt ; gave all my falscoh ¾ of a millieme :
Saturday March 4th
dusty day : up at 6.45 am : breakfast : fell in 7.45 am & marched to our beat : more nuts : made a board & played draughts : more chats : kids amusing at museum :tram