Chapter 15: Monday the Twelfth

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌​​‌​‌​⁠Golden weather again, with a clear sky and soft and balmy air! Just before our mid-day meal Olie arrived with mail for us. We've had letters from home! Instead of cheering me up they made me blue, for they seemed to bring word from another world, a world so far, far away!

I decided to have a half-day in the open, so I strapped on my duck-gun and off I went on Paddy, as soon as dinner was over and t