The dogs were as good thieves as their masters

TCD MS 3416 page 68

TCD MS 3416 page 68

[June 1916]

Travelling hard all the <night of the> 28th we arrived at a pretty wayside village called Serai on the 29th; here again we had to witness more sorrow: a wretched Armenian woman from whom one of our number bought some eggs, pointed piteously to some of her husbands clothes, it appeared that he had had his throat cut.

We passed the night at Serai, and I found out that the dogs were as good thieves as their masters,- 2 loaves of bread disappeared from my pillow. The next day we, arrived at YOZGAD where we were destined to remain for months as the “Honoured Guests of Turkey.”