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Show , Letters ' Frc m Bingham Soldiers holds out much longer. I'll be all ready for the old soldiers home, I suppose. But nevr you .fear, I'm going to be here as long as I hold out "Seen lots, having been here for several months, and have seen real fighting. Not that kind you read about, of trt'nf'h warfare,' but fierce, honest to-God fighting, the k!nd that makes you see your God many, many times before you quit. Once upon a time I had queer Idas it eating Rauer kraut and welnnies across the Rhine, but there- were too many limberger Hotter from Khil S. Kim to J. T. Dean: "Your honor, ahem! (How is your excellent self! and the shop, the weather, wea-ther, the town and even your chewing? chew-ing? And the boys, where are they? I met one at Leavenworth, but they railroaded me the same night and never had the chance to exchange anything. I "As for me, I'm all right. Nothing missing. Still Intact and hide whole, and expect to go through O. K., but , I have my doubts. "France Isn't Bingham, and BIng-1 ham Is, I think, a whole lt - better than this La 'Belle France, as so many nuts have termed. But then It Is a matter of personal taste. And as for me, give me a piece of one American skirt than all the pari voolng, merry eyed madamoiselles in France. And give me a sunny corner In Bfnghnm where I can doze In peace, rather than this beautiful, quaint (its cold and wet) France whore shrapnel whiz, a joy killing time. "Ore', but this war is mire enough. heKima. whnt-r tianiay-callit kind of a (tame Hint's glvpn me so much chills till along itiy pi!ihI column that now I thir.k -my hii'khnne's kimla ' worn out. And I have shock mid ' grunted like a cj.ld, wet dog so often ' , I'm getting knock kneed to lrnt Fun-' Fun-' ny kind of man I'll he If this war dumps and nests in the way which checked us only temporally, for, mind you, we all are determined to i get across or shoot the stool from under the kaiser, whether those sons of Huns cover their and up with i limberger or not. The only thing that woTles me is the wet and cold and thone whiz bands for 1 kinda think one of those eight Inchers would knock the wind out of me some. However, I'm hop-1 InU they won't and if they do, here's hoping f g! t a jo'j aa coal heaver down there o I could make it damn hot for that kaiser feller who's the cause of all this tiresome, hard dcys and agonizing hours, and the loss of munv friends, brave, true, who now lie in the cold, wet sod far from home and kin." |