Show THE PAPERS OF IRi PRIVATE VATE PURKEY FURKEY dear mal ma 1 I wish you wild stop worrying about me as I 1 a ami 1 mall all right accept tor for fallen arches flub flu chilblains a ump limp in both bothI legs and indigestion but I 1 feel a lot less like squawking sincee since 11 talked toan iwan old timer up here who was in thelast the last war and from what he be says li ingess giss we have all modem improvements up here now he says in the last war the draft army just hid had tents like they waz camping out with no wooden floors and no electric lights and he says every time you was not in bed yo you u was standing in wet grass or in a mud puddle he says tents did not have windows and screen doors like we have today and that in rainy weather a soldier hadbo had to live like a mud turtle he says he see no wooden floors from the time he left home until the army got back from frince france it Is hard for me to this as this camp Is a regular building project and there Is almost as many c carpenters here as soldiers they have all the buildings finished by the time the war Is over it 11 they get good weather and dont walk so tar far for nails army life Is a big disser to me ma on account I 1 always had an idea from the story books and pictures that most soldiers had saddle horses to ride I 1 aint seen no I 1 horse i orse since I 1 got here it Is strictly a bunion derby army as I 1 sed be fo four ir I 1 wish army uniforms fitted better what the army needs Is more tailors I 1 got a hat that is big enough for a coat and a coat so tight I 1 cud use it tor for a hat there Is no glammer here me like in the movies of army life almost everybody here needs a shave and haircut and this goes lor for the generals who are homely old pelicans and dont look nothing like the generals in pictures accept wally berry the boys here tell me the training 1 I am getting 19 is good tor for me but I 1 do not feel no better than when I 1 started training even if I 1 am in better shape like the doctors say I 1 rather be out of con dishun in private life than a perfect men in the army I 1 sleep good but not for long on account of the rule that makes a soldier get up at daybreak 1 I never seen so many sunrises in my life gee me ma I 1 am halt half through a days training before you and the folks are out of bed back home I 1 be in better shape tor for a war if I 1 cud sleep an hour longer it I 1 auz in a war I 1 not squawk but what Is the sense getting an army up so early when there Is nothing to do but just what you done the day bedour witch cud be done lz better ater in brighter gunlite anyhow vill 1 I am glad th the winter is over the first robin was seen in a army chicken pie here yesterday and tour four baby chicks hatched out of a hall half dozen eggs in the mess room last week spring cant cum to soon as I 1 have had anuff outdoor life in cold weather and do not care tor for it even it if it does make healthier well I 1 must close clos now me ma as I 1 have got to go walking again in defense of my country cud you send sena me some more socks as admy imy feet wear right through them the first miles love ascar observation theres there nothing makes a man yell pachill Pu buchl chill like sewing left upon a couch merrill Chil chilcote cots add similes as nonchalant as the average american talking about an appropriation of 0 SLIGHT achievement C results are so flimsy from things done by whimsy merriu merrill chilcote new york has had bad a drugstore 0 strike which crippled the drugstores so o badly they were unable to handle anything but drugs and medical supplies the closed the he straits strait to the crooks as it were hank ford says fays that a flivver airplane will soon be as easy to operate as aa the glrst first auto used to be but its going to seem strange to see lee the air full of tizzies with t eath orli tr on em cm |