Tuesday, Feb. 4, 19. 
     
     Same as yesterday, wrote a letter and tried to get some 
     
    
   
   
    
     more done but failed. Will wait 'till Saturday p.m. holiday. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wednesday Feb. 5, 19. 
     
     Worked a pass to town today though I had two already. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Paddy, Foote, Mastin, Datir and I went. Had a drink of 
     
     schnapps on the way to the station, and waited about an hour 
     
     for the train. Could not see Jim Shaw as he is still in hospital, 
     
     so went around best way we knew. One of the American MP's 
     
     took us around late in the afternoon. Went through the Jap 
     
     market's and the second hand Mongolian and Russian market 
     
     back to the Jap places. Some of the stuff is new and useful but 
     
     the greater part of it is worthless. Broken parts of old 
     
     machinery, broken bicycles and sewing machines, old boxes of 
     
     military buttons, old coins and in some places boxes of old 
     
     badges, watches and rings. Generally, it is said they keep the 
     
     old stuff as a blind, and have stolen goods of considerable value 
     
     underneath, which will be produced only to the customer they 
     
     know. Had supper at a restaurant with coffee royal to start 
     
     with. Nice pork chops, and good bread and coffee. Butter we 
     
     never see as it is too expensive 3 luxury for even Canadian 
     
     soldier at $ 1.10 per. Went back on same old stuffy train, 
     
     ignoring the conductor when he came to collect the tickets, as 
     
     none of the fellows ever pay railway fare. They act like 
     
     Members of Parliament at home. In the City though we get 
     
     nothing for nothing and the fellows say that when a shopkeeper 
     
     sees a soldier coming he tells his clerks to double the price of 
     
     everything they buy. It appears that way to us as it seems 
     
     outrageous the price they ask for some things. 
     
    
   
   
    
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