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running and football, and are all getting very fit - And the horses are picking up like anything also.

There are too many professionals over here for a chap to win anything at a sports meeting but we have reall good fun amongst ourselves training for them.

Must go and fill our sections none bags now. Cousin Jocelyn will miss Alans help pretty much if he has enlisted. Poor Alan, I reckon the worst time of the whole lot is enlisting and being messed about in details until you get your unit - but of course you dont notice it at the time, it is not till you have there that you realize how rotten the detail camps are.

I wrote to Fred a couple of days ago and thanked him for those photos he took - they were jolly good ones for his first attempt I think.

The other evening when Bill and I were coming home from Jaffa we saw a jackall - it was just dusk and the jackall was very tame and ran up and sniffed round about 10 yds away from us - I was wishing I had my rifle with me, they are very like foxes, only a bit

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