Show WORLD WAR YARNS by nut frank bhagan A valuable muleskinner skinner in on one of ite ilex bench i stories he bait ha list inimitable character chArnet tr of his old ill joyce declare now novi a tood good mule driver ti to the littlest orn erlest speck in the human line that a krio known n to the microscope but when yoa you get a poor one hed one of hem cholera germs you read about just bj by contact but it old bill had listened la in on i a conference look took place it at camp kearney calif during july 1117 1017 when thousands of men bere were rere belli belis trained for or service ow oer there be he MAI have baye revised till his estimate certainly it was a jolt to the self wit es esteem t etta 0 of I 1 on ome me in of f tb the e professional men who t it tint first hod had a high idea of their worth to their Ou tilts two battery commanders of an artillery regiment wen were engaged in a heale argument overhearing part of 14 it the regimental undertook to adjust their differ encee elices mils the batterr he asked iles trying to get a man away from my mint replied captain N no 0 1 well I 1 offered hl n 4 fair ex change declared captain no Z 2 lioi the he man anyway asked the adjutant A mules klaner and nad a domed da bcd rood good one eald sold caption no 1 what mat are IDU jou going to give hinal asked tho adjutant A banker and two to salesmen replied coptain cn plain noi no 1 then in a sudden birst burst of generosity he add cd ed an ani I 1 if it tie ne lii III throw in a lawyer to hoot boot 0 4 0 those crazy americans one day in july 1917 a it working party of the eleventh echi en peers one we of the first unite units of the A EL E F to arrive overseas will wa busy mining a rond road for an ad vance of british anin busy with pick and sheel shoel they had left their rifles mes some distance behind them then suddenly a strong force of oer ger man roans ii all heavily armed arvied burst apon upon the scene and seeing this email small force of unarmed laboring men wept swept comard to what they believed be an easy victory victor Y but they didel t know that tha t th these eso w ware re men of a 2 corps of the united state states arny chow motto la Is Es E bayons french for or lete lets T try rt to the sur surprise 0 c the camans these unarmed roer mer instead of tak ing to their heels rushed forward yelling aud and brandishing picks and abo clovd ameri amerl nn an fists crashed crushed into jams and end sent their owneta sp sprawling raMing nine were jerked out of the astonished germans germane bands and turned fiCal against not them alt all in all it nn a fine one rough band and tuh affair within a few ew minutes the had routed the enemy kith heavy loss tom suf I hint only a few casualties then them eaves EC I 1 ves thus early began the experience of the germans with those crazy o 0 Aire ricans who know when t tuey y ere licked As time went OB on their arst impression of the yanli yani gathered from thia this contact with the engineer engineers included oded also the try and the artillery ani lery in Sep ber bet 1918 it was vias reported from the be french front that many of the boce bocie prisoner prison erp when men ashod what they think of the american troop speak somewhat as follows they arent soldiers the infantry Is drunk and the artillery Is crazy they dont care for the way the american infantry goes out and colwes hostile machine runs guns and they think batteries bat which hibb fire ore for 24 bours a day have bare lost their rea son entirely an important german lerman officer who was captured was as asked if ho he particularly to see an any thine thing yes said he be I 1 I 1 won want t to see your automatic artillery the captors were puzzled until it developed that the american bad been bring tiring to fast that the german thought hey they were nw inventions vent ions lons that worked like machine gung not localized and now about those cooties of the A R F F twenty times vines bore rore sold lers had bad them 1111 it 11 Is 11 estimated than were vwe tethered jtb h rat rats and other pits petillar pe cillar to army life you didat have to be in the line to attract the bonts the S 0 8 had em emi too and extraordinary care waa was esken at crest and other of om embarkation bar kation kallon as a malt mulls to see that all soldiers old lers returning to america were properly property delou deloose sid on board ship count countless leas arpi arga meats mesta arose when ben men had noth ing but their scalps to scratch about booties cooties co oties I 1 havo have known one of bew returning home argument arguments wits wa aboard the L S S mith south ua da kota kots between a soldier and a marine Mh cherti ertI yoa you find ind the most ot of emr inquired the doughboy re ferring to cootie co otles brest said the leatherneck CrIpe sIft be the doughboy 1 I had bad em ill 11 II over me I 1 4 1130 u union I 1 |