In the fields they had splendid opportunities for training and exercise.

I often took service for them.

One Sunday afternoon I had been speaking of the necessity of purifying the commercial life of Canada on our return, and I said something uncomplimentary about land speculators.

I was told afterwards that I had caused much amusement in all ranks, for every man in the troop from the officers downwards, or upwards, was a land speculator, and had town lots to sell in the West.
In conversations with privates and non-coms., I often found they had left good positions in Canada and not infrequently were men of means.
I have given mud-splashed soldiers a ride in the car, and they have talked about their own cars at home.

It was quite pathetic to see how much men thought of some little courtesy or act of kindness.