Item 06: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1918-April 1919 - Page 6
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however they are issuing us with plenty of oil and grease for our saddles and it makes beautiful slush lamps, I am writing this by the light of a piece of rifle rag stuck in a tobacco tin full of castor oil, and it is quite as good as a candle.
We are still all wondering how conscription went - there have been two or three rumours about it, but as they have been both for and against; one cant believe anything.
The country is beginning to get very pretty round here now; the early wheat is coming up and the niggers are all at work in their fields with their little wooden ploughs and with donkeys, and cattle and camels pulling them and their wives hoeing up the hard patches. I'd like to own some of the big flats here; and get a six furrow plow going round them; the niggers would wonder what had struck them when they saw their whole plot turned over in one act - they only scratch the ground about 2 in. deep and dont plow out any weeds, so their crops dont get a very fair spin, but it is wonderful how well they grow.
Hope you are getting too dry a summer.
Love to Mother and the boys
Your loving Son
Robert C. Wilson
P.S. Am able to get plenty of films in Cairo now. A shipment has just arrived from Australia. They are Kodak films, made in Melbourne.
Next day 7th - Just received a letter from Mother dated 17th Nov. also four parcels and umteen papers! Expect more letters will come tomorrow. Will write to Mother tonight.
Love Rob