"Young men dare not now come to market or to be seen lest they should be taken and yet there ore many young men here who are not taken but are free to come and go: there are homes with two, three, four or even five men in them but ere not called up while poor country fads, many of them the only sons, are ragged from their homes or from the market and made to drill; they fail to do it well they are cruelly beaten; some of them have come to me for treatment.
"In two instances, a mother has had a son fighting at the front and now the. other (younger) son is, aken. The reason why young, men the street are not taken is cause they have relatives in petty positions."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.