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status to object and I don't think they will.
I am taking a day in Sheffield to see the Museum,
and on Thursday night I return to York where
Jocelyn joins me and we stay till Monday.
The Society of Antiquaries have voted me £60,
two years of the Gunning Fellowship to visit
Museums this year, so my summer holiday
will be pleasantly and profitably spent.
Living is still very dear but commodities generally
are becoming more plentiful & I hear that all
rationing is likely to cease in a month's time.
On 28th. Feb. I did my last evening parade as
a special constable and I heartily rejoice at
having seen the end of a tiring job. Most of
us have signed on for Sunday duty & emergencies,
but the former only entails about one forenoon
in two months & even that I am told is not likely
to continue much longer. Though I am glad
that the work is practically over for it was very
tiring, I am sorry to part company with many
excellent fellows, drawn from all walks of life,
who have stuck it out together for the last four
years. The most serious case that ever fell to my
lot was helping to run in a drunk & incapable
at Xmas time - so I got off easily.

14th. May 1919.
Summer warmth & sunshine at last after
a long protracted winter. Only about a fortnight
ago we had a heavy snowstorm & blizzard one
Sunday. The snow in London lay to a depth of 8 or 9
ins. [inches] I was out on my last Sunday morning
patrol as a Special, and for part of the time
the weather was, perhaps, the most unpleasant
I have been out on during my four years service.
Sandy is in Germany on the Rhine with the
53rd. Gordons, Young Army, having a great time.
His regiment, by some curious arrangement, are
in charge of the Carabiniers Horses. Kilted cavalry
seems quite on a par with horse Marines.
On Monday evening, after I had left the Museum
in Queen St a telephone message was received
from East Linton to say that Pringle had found
something, (not grasped in the message) and would
like me to go down on the following morning.
I could not go in the morning being too busy in
Chambers St., but I lunched in town and
got the 1.40 train to East Linton. It was a
glorious afternoon, & I stolled up leisurly to
the hill taking a photo here & there as I went,
not expecting that Pringle's "find" was anything
of importance, in fact from what was gathered
from the telephone message I suspected he
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