Show New Years Year's at atthe atthe atthe the Front B BT By Saidee Estelle Balcom I L. L ELL what have you done f your country today It was the eve eye atthe of at the new year and Dale Date Webster hailed halted by a companion B soldier 0 I die r. r threw his knapsack within their i tent Just behind the tM heavy artillery artillery artillery ar ar- ar- ar tillery at the front somewhere in France Oh brought In a captive was his careless reply Ran Into the marched him Into camp and lef him Inthe Inthe In la lathe the guard house Any letters Nary a letter They say the mall mail packs here are ore four days overdue but they're rushing holiday stuff to the camps Dale Date Webster sighed and his face tace grew wistful Ive been expecting one letter etter particularly Youre You're my friend Roy After your carrying me on your back ack half halt dead across the worst part of ot No Mans Man's Land with the Bodies Baches plugging away for tor keeps I guess so I And you remember Winnie Trask As a n memory sweet and fragrant as a n field of ot daisies 1 I Well one one night in in a n dugout I just couldn't help but write her way back home lome there what I ought to have said to her before we left Three months and no word I fancy I was too presumptuous pre pre- sumptuous If If I knew v that Winnie was caring for me thinking of ot me at home Id I'd d never get lonesome Id I'd fight double to 0 get this up mix over over and back to her bless bless her I l Dont lose hope encouraged Roy Hartley Bartley One of ot the fellows just got gota a letter written by his sweetheart last September It has been chasing him nil aU over the frontier About your prisoner pris prIs- oner make oner-make make you any trouble Not a bit of ot It declared Dale In a spirited way The bear bent bear The bear I repeated Roy In won won- derment Oh I forgot to tell you that my catch was a bear blar spoke Dale I came ame across him curled up In a pit a performing bear strayed from some mountebank master in one of the bombarded bom bom- larded barded villages Soon as he saw sow me he acted frightened and humble and aud when I patted him uttered a jolly growl turned a somersault and stood on his head You dont don't mean It I Come Ill I'll show you Dale led the way to the guardhouse Outside of ot it was gathered a noisy group Unit halt way up the tho flagpole was wasa a great greut shaggy monster who cleverly reversed oversea himself slid to earth turned a dozen graceful somersaults and walked around on his hind bind feet teet Oh well we'll put him on our vaudeville vaude- vaude ville program as the one leading attraction at- at traction tomorrow I l voted a dozen ob ob- ob- ob servers the row rowl l I as cheerIng cheer- cheer cheering Ing ng echoed from the other end of the encampment From Irom a dust covered battered altered automobile two men were throwing browing oft packages Belated mall announced the river driver driver Section A A. A Throw ort off tho the plunder er men and you hungry fellows grab Tub and distribute Box Boxes s packages up tied bundles of newspapers and und letters passed from hand to hand Roy noy Hartley Bartley was most active In the work of sorting out the heterogeneous mass Something for you Dale he called poising a square box before hurling It I 1 say Inspecting the marks on the box bor tor Its It's b been up and down the whole battle attle line Une I ISee See If there Isn't a letter directed Dale Hilt placing the bo box beside a a tent teat and his eyes erea were were eager caler hopeful the box held rem remembrances ces from born some come home borne group but Ltd his soul goal was hungry for lor something more mor Nothing for tor you Iou called caned out cot Roy Hoy running over oer the letters la his hI hand baneL ne hay iley I look nt eat nt for ter your box I r no 1101 s It DOe oka luet u t In tD time OM Brain u n tt peen she e ly at th the r box o i. i T fille Then f n 1 h he ha pW dt 1 It Q his bis claws piercing cing the |