door when a plain clothes man held us up for our military papers and registration certificates,but we all had them so he told us how to get to the Armouries. That was the first time I was ever asked to show my papers. We all had to answer wer a list of questions before we wet before the examining board and then we all went up stairs where the doctors were. There were several mis fits around the room but most of the boys looked to be in pretty fair shape. They had me take my shoes and socks off and they looked at my knees for awhile and then told me to go and wait for awhile so I went back to the stove which had a railing around it just the right temperature to be comfortable for my feet and one of the other boys (Abbot from Coast land) and sat there with our four feet up on the stove watching the other fellows getting put through their paces. There was one olf fat fellow who was lame and they took a long time to pass on him. They had him stripped to the waist and made him lie out falt on the table which seemed to give him considerable trouble then they made him prance up and down the room and alternated these exercises all the time I was there. The last I saw of him he was reclining on the table with his abdoment heaved high in the air and the doctors had