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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1916

Theobald Toby Barrett 1916 Diary 53.pdf

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with Billy Boughner standing in the palms of his hands and then getting down again and lying with his head on one chair and his feet on another and making his abdomen rigid enough for as many of the soldiers as there was room for from his head to his feet to stand on him. The last item on the programme and the one that proved about the most interesting was a recruiting rally.


Mrs. Lamb a returned nurse gave is a good account of her experiences at the front and then made. avery stirring appeal for more men using some extrememly foolish arguments in favor of them leaving things here to go to a financial smash up and enlist to save Canada from the ravages of the Huns. Of course it sounds all right, but it would sound my=uch better if they would mix up reasons with sentiment. Major Innes from Simcoe then spoke and said he was fgoing to ask Mrs. Lamb to get them twenty five men to-night, so she started by telking then she would knit a pair of socks for every man who enlisted to-night and sdaid "Now who'll come up here." In a very short time there were about fifteen men on the atge buit a strabge feature iof it wa that with the exception of George Holden and quarter Paton fellow, no one seemed to know any of them so it looked

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