France, May 20/16 My Dear Mother, I was very glad to receive your letter the day afore yesterday. It really took seventeen or eighteen days for it to come. It came the quickest of any of the letters yet. I also got one from Miss Keith the same day. Well here we are the sun shining bright and everything very warmer. We had very good luck this last time in as our company never had any casualities yet but we are in the reserve now. We will soon be going out to camp again. I havn't rec your parcel yet but I likely will get it soon. I generally get the parcels when we are out in Rest camp instead of in the trenches. We generally like to get them while in the trenches but they are fine any old time. By the time you get the letter you will be through seeding if everything goes well. You said that you had send a cake of soap and a towel. Well if you could send a piece of soap now and again if would be very handy; but about a towel everytime I really dont need one as we can get a clean one everytime we go to the baths and in the hot weather it will be too hard to carry ground anything extra. So the Easter holiday are over and the children will be hard at school again I hope Aileen is successful. This summer with her exams she had a hard time of it going to school this winter. The trenches are fine and dry now as we have been lucky and only had two wet days in the Trenches in three or four trips in. You ask me if that [?] as a perman-ent Job. Well it is not and just about the same as in the firing line. The soldiers in [?] are having a good time they seem to be able to get leave any line and a month off for seeding. I guess there will be quite a number of the battalion coming over to England before the summer is out. So Florence[?] and [?] [?] are down from Vancouver to cook for their Father. They will have some Job alright We will be some cooks when we get back alright. When in the trenches we get dry tea and sugar and sometimes now bacon so we have to do our own cooking. All we do is make tea, bread, and sometimes cold meat, often times we don't get Jam or butter only on [?] two or three days but we make up for it when the parcels come around and when we come back to Camp. Well Mother this is about all the news this time. Well love to all From Your loving Son John