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with bacon or beef. [[underlined in red]] This will teach people how unnecessary meat eating is and how we are all eating too much of [[/underlined in red]] it.
The new [[underlined in red]] liquor law forbids [[treating?]] [[/underlined in red]] - an excellent measure.
I notice there are no longer any recruiting tents as were so evident in 1915.
[[underlined in red]] People seem to have become entirely used to the war. [[/underlined in red]] Of the [[underlined in red]] 2000 students of [[/underlined in red]] MacGill University who enlisted [[underlined in red]] over 200 have been killed. [[/underlined in red]]
To night saw a lank lean overgrown lad in Scots uniform bare kneed and kilted as there are so many, but what impressed me was
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[[underlined in red]] the gray haired old lady, his mother who followed him with an impression of resignation. - her only boy perhaps; perhaps also she [[/underlined in red]] had other boys at the front maybe she had lost some and I thought of our only [[underlined in red]] boy and his mother. [[/underlined in red]] 
And yet everybody seems to [[underlined in red]] have become [[/underlined in red]] used to the idea - [[underlined in red]] no complaints - no display of grief. [[/underlined in red]] 
[[strikethrough]] Aug 27. [[/strikethrough]] 
The fact is we have become [[underlined in red]] used to war conditions and accept everything with [[/underlined in red]] a feeling of fatalism.
Aug 27. Left Ritz Carlton at about 9. A.M. Took me one hour to get over the first eleven miles, on account of streets and that long Victoria Bridge 
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