I am thirty-seven to-day.... but I don't feel old, and pray that I
may be given more strength to give more and do more, and to keep
nothing back that should be _given_.
There is an inspiration in giving, and in being spent for the
greatest things, that knows no limits and never knows what it is to
give too much.
He was disappointed several times of the leave which he was looking
forward to, but he never grumbled. When it came at last in October
it was spent chiefly in seeing his many friends and especially the
relatives of his comrades in the Battalion. One friend has seen in
this a new instance of the fact that he 'always thought first of
others.'
It was in November that the unlooked for honour came to Captain
Lusk:--