Jack Crawford says he is going to the war because he is tired of farming.

I hope he will find it a pleasant change.

And Mrs.Richard Elliott over-harbour is worrying herself sick because she used to be always scolding her husband about smoking up the parlour curtains.

Now that he has enlisted she wishes she had never said a word to him.

You know Josiah Cooper and William Daley, Mrs.Dr.dear.They used to be fast friends but they quarrelled twenty years ago and have never spoken since.