| Show camp lewis lems wash oct 1 16 6 1917 dar mother I 1 I 1 I 1 am all bell and I 1 certainly hope you are arc the same I 1 never felt better in my life wo we had a ft hole bhole day of sunshine boduy the first time I 1 have awn the file sun rise and set since I 1 1 nave aye been here I 1 am getting no 00 fleshy I 1 cant find my ribs it you u could see aee me eat ou could account ri tor for it im afraid I 1 will never get rich Nor working king for I 1 uncle sam I 1 eat from three to six alx bars of candy a ilay day and ice cream besides we tare are getting fed fairly good now we have moat meat for every meal the company 1 la Is 1 divided into squads t and breach aft each squad takes its tura anthe kitchen I 1 had mine the other day they said they never saw my equal for or ft wash ing dishes k LW U wo we were vaccinated vaccina ted for small pox a week ago last sunday and list liot friday we were mustered redin in and inn or I 1 arm rhey run a needle into your arm it stings for a little while after afterwards ards and in about six to twelve hours you begin to feet feel the effects of it some of the boys were laid out for a while I 1 felt very sick alck about dark but in the mornings morn ingI was wait all right after wo we got through being mustered in and passed out of the house there was a bunch of soldiers who played a joke on the lads lade thoy they rolled up tip their sleeves painted their arms arma red and told them all kinds of fishy yarns yarna about the needle going through their arms then they would get a man or two behind to catch them when they fainted then they had an instrument something like a pump which malch they would place on your arm and pump away I 1 got wise wige before it came my turn it would be impossible to get lonesome out here there Is Y at 0 A all over the camp and something boing on every night the one I 1 am in now has it a piano playing in one corner a phonograph in another and aj it ii bunch of men singing in another myron perry loren ross floss alfred harrlson harrison and herbert bell will leave in a few dais to join the national guard of utah the bunch of men that came from vernal with me are in the same barracks that I 1 am in wo we havo have a i dandy little spring cot to lo sleep on two blankets and one nellt I 1 sleep like a log elders elder elmor dell bell and ernest eaton jr rime to see us tie sunday they or are 1 close around hero here I 1 joined a bible class last night we N III meet once a week it la in free of charge they have services on sunday I 1 got two more shots allots in the arm for typhoid fever on friday and another a week eek later and then I 1 will to lo able to stand most anything be aeve me they are going to make men out of us if they can I 1 dont be worrying about me getting getling into bad company because I 1 am safe in that une line most moat of the men in our barracks are ara men of good morals it seem like we are ing ng to go to war talking with men most of thoro th m think we will never see war my but it la Is some gome sight to see all the men out on the ground dri drilling it sure la Is telling on me we have had it very easy so BO far but some are sure drilling hard WINFRED LONG |
