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the lead & get to Blighty so desperate I was. Someone came along & asked me what I'd give them for a leave pass to England. I offered them my hopes of Heaven & what I value more of Hell & they produced one ordering me to London next day, after I'd taken 15 fits & turned numerous handsprings I sobered down & caught the train taking with me about the heaviest suit case (laden with Bosch souvenirs) & the lightest heart on record – how blue was the sky, how beautiful the country, the things in the garden yards & yards high quite a la Jack's beanstalk. Well to make a very long journey shortened got to London, its wonderful the feeling one has crossing the Channel & one offers up this sort of prayer all the way, Oh God spare me from submarines this trip & I'll be a good boy for ever so long & I don't care a damn what you do to me on the way back, you can submarine me 20 times if you like only let me get to Blighty (this is a universal prayer for those who travel by sea Londonwards).