Ulysses
they call themselves talking his usual trash and nonsense he
says that little man he showed me without the neck is very
intelligent the coming man Griffiths is he well he doesnt
look it thats all I can say still it must have been him he knew
there was a boycott I hate the mention of their politics after
the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein
where Gardner lieut Stanley G 8th Bn 2nd East Lancs Rgt of
enteric fever he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the
right height over me Im sure he was brave too he said I was
lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal lock my
Irish beauty he was pale with excitement about going away
or wed be seen from the road he couldnt stand properly and
I so hot as I never felt they could have made their peace in
the beginning or old oom Paul and the rest of the other old
Krugers go and fight it out between them instead of drag-
ging on for years killing any finelooking men there were
with their fever if he was even decently shot it wouldnt have
been so bad I love to see a regiment pass in review the first
time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La Roque it was lovely af-
ter looking across the bay from Algeciras all the lights of the
rock like fireflies or those sham battles on the 15 acres the
Black Watch with their kilts in time at the march past the
10th hussars the prince of Wales own or the lancers O the
lancers theyre grand or the Dublins that won Tugela his fa-
ther made his money over selling the horses for the cavalry
well he could buy me a nice present up in Belfast after what
I gave him theyve lovely linen up there or one of those nice
kimono things I must buy a mothball like I had before to
keep in the drawer with them it would be exciting going