By the time this letter reaches you, you will have heard from the telegrams of the various ways in which Canada has given of her best. I have just returned from seeing a body of Militiamen entrain for the camp at Valcartier in Quebec, where the troops are being concen trated. Young, active, sturdy and smart they all were. They were examples of the men which Cunads will send. They are of the same stamp which did such good work in the Boer War, and they are anxious to imitate the example set them in that war. A great crowd gathered to send them off: tears were in the eyes of a few women: but soberness of thought, the reali-
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