Show New Years Year's atthe atthe at atthe the Front By SAIDEE ESTELLE BALCOM ELL what have haye you T done for your country today 1 pp It was the eve of the new year and Dale Webster W Milted by a companion sol soldier die 1 K threw his Ills knapsack within their tent just behind the heavy artiller artillery ar ar- tiller tillery at the tho front somewhere In France Oh Ob brought In a captive was his careless reply Ran Into the marched him Into camp and left him In Inthe Inthe Inthe the guard guald house Any letters Nary a letter They say the mall mail packs pucks here are four days overdue but they're rushing holiday stuff holiday stuff to the camps Dale Webster sighed and his face grew wistful Ive been expecting one letter particularly Youre You're my friend Roy Koy After Alter your carrying me on your back half halt d dead cad across the worst t part of No Mans Man's Land Lind with the Bodies 1 s P plugging 5 ln a away way for keeps I guess so 1 And you remember Winnie Trask As g a memory sweet and fragrant as a field of daisies 1 I Well Nell one ODe night In a dugout I Just couldn't help but write her way back buck home there wh what t I ought to have said to her before we left Three months and no word I fancy I was too pre- pre If It I knew that Winnie was caring curing for me thinking of me at home Id I'd never get lonesome Id I'd light fight double to get this mix up over and back Jo her bless her bless her Dont lose hope encouraged Roy Hartley Bartley One of ot the fellows vs Just got gota a n It letter written by his sweetheart last September September- It has been beeD chasing him ull all over oyer tho the fr frontier About your prisoner pris pris- oner make oner-make make you any trouble Not ot a bit of It declared Dale In a I spirited way Tho The bear bear bear- The bear hear I repeated Roy Hoy In won WOD- derment Oh I forgot to tell you ou that my catch atch was a n bear spoke D Daje Dae e. e I 1 came me across him curled up In a pit a fI performing heur hear l I irm trIn tae some I mountebank mountebank- mountebank mister master In III one of the wn nm burled villages Sown Sonn us itS Ae lu saw uw U tte Ile i ie he Ie noted acted frightened and humble numble null and when I patted him him uttered a 11 Jolly growl rowl turned a somers somersault and stood on his head hend You dont don't mean meal It I 1 Come Ill I'll show you ou Dale led the tray uy to o the guardhouse e. e Outside of It was gathered a noisy group Half Hulf way tray up the flagpole wasn wasa was n a great greut shaggy monster who cleverly reYer reversed ed himself slid to earth turned n a dozen graceful somersaults and walked around on cn his hind feet Oh well we'll put him on on our vaudeville vaude vaude- vaudeville ville program as fiS the thc one leading attraction attraction attraction at at- traction tomorrow I voted a dozen observers ob ob- ob- ob I servers servers the row I as us cheering cheering cheer cheer- ing echoed from the other end of the tho encampment From a dust covered battered automobile two men were throwing off ott packages Belated inn mall mail announced the driver Section A A. A Throw off oft the plunder men and you hungry fellows grab and distribute Boxes packages up tied bundles of newspapers and letters passed from hand Roy noy Bartley Dartley was most active In the work of sorting out the heterogeneous mass Something for you OU Dale he called poising a square box before hurling It ItI I say say Inspecting the marks on the tho box its it's been up and down the whole hol battle line See If there Isn't a letter directed Dale placing the box beside a tent and his eyes were eager and hopeful Doubtless the box held remembrances from some home dome group but his soul was hungry for something more prized Nothing for you call called d out no Roy running over ovel the letters In his hand hantl Hey I look out for your box I Roy Hoy spoke Just In time Old Bruin unnoticed had been raining intrusively intrusive intrusive- ly at the box Then The he lie had pawed It his claws piercing the frill pasteboard |