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of beans and a couple of slices of toast constituted my meal a little warning for you, Mother. Take my tin and stock larder good and plentiful or I'll eat you out’ of house Willing to take the chance, Aren't you?
Here* s up your
and home.
_ Let took my Hun helmet away with him, my instructions being for him to leave it with his folks till ceiled for. Had I felt so
inclined I could have made a wad of money out of those six helmets of
mine. The one I gave to Let I was offered 80 francs for, and it
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- t the best , of the lot either. As it was, all the realized was 30 francs, that sum being obtained for one t,o middlin'^sb^pe. It's a, cinch I can't be a tightwad.'
capital I in only fair
Some vegetable garden you have this year. I wouldn't mind a cob or two or three or four, of your Golden Bantam corn. Haven't
any since 1 left home, a.nd you know how long ago that is "Eats" again.
Sorry to make this so short a letter, but really cen s or able news is as scarce as hen’s teeth. Will try and make a better job of
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As eber,
Yours lovingly,
BREL
P. S, Almost forgot* Please send me an express money order - not a
Stnf kV5?'0? ToVee i’n not oertsin ,'heaier money ia
still in the E.o. Land, so do not care to write to Mr. Brevne for it sufficef°r ^ neXt leave* That v/ith I can draw ought to
Prance,
November 4th, 1918,
Lear Harold, -
Heartiest congratulations on your hr ill ian victory in the tennis tournament. Talk about me being a lead swinger* Still in hospital and playing tennis and baseball. If that isn’t obtaining money under false pretences, I want to know. The quicker you get' your discharge and settle down the better it will be for you for you're leading altogether too frivolous a life. When I was your age
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, , . mentioned some snaps in a recent letter. What's the
matter? Por&ot to send 'em? Kick through in your next, will you
the Lvnf+Xh°U^ t0 *ee ho* you l00k in civvies. I suppose the Govn't hands a fellow with his discharge doesn't go very far
towards outfitting him in these days of high prices.
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