apply for exemption from military service. I went right over to the Armouries from the car to get an early place in the line but we had to waut f=about an hour before the doctors began ec=xamining. When they did start they told us to be rewady for them so as not to keep them waiting and accordingly qwe all stripped to a most distressing state of complete nakedness nand line dup ready to go through the test. There were about twentyfive of us when they started and more kept coming. Some of the boys were cold and put their coats on while they ewaited, t=when they came to me I first got on a set of scales and one doctor weighed and measured me in different ways & also tested my eyes, anothe rdfellow listened to my heart and lungs and asked me if I had ever had any trouble with my g=feet or legs so i told him about my knee. He pinched it and said it was a sprin and I had better blister it, he then sent me over to a third doctor and he said the same thing, that I had better fire it. I said i didn't think much of firiong spavins but he told me w=he had a little mare once which sprunf a couple of jackls an dhe took them off where upon another doctor began inquiring of him