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could draw that sort of thing.
I am taking the afternoon off as
Shouldham said I might, & I
find these long days which start
at 10 - in the morning & end about
10 at night, pretty tiring in this
heat.

We have just come from a most
tragic place Alsask in Saskatchewan
one of the worst bits of the drought
area. You can't conceive what it is
like. An area where the wheat
once grew nearly as high as a
man, is all khaki coloured & withered. We