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- in the mornings. We’d he glad to hare you send along a couple of those sleeveless sweaters that came in so handy last winter. Dispensed with them this spring. Too lousy.
We’ve been pretty fortunate all right, in being down the line for so long. At that we have only missed two trips that our section made up the line. A ball game was scheduled for the first time, end we being the main guys on the term, had to be left behind. Did we hick? Well, I should say nix. On the second occasion we were in Paris, and read all about the raid our section cleared for, in the "Daily Wail" while at breakfast in -Taxevilie’?. How that the ball see eon is over, guess we’ll do our regular turn up the line. Pays to be an athlete doesn't it?
Mighty glad to hear that Nelson has enlisted. Had an idea ell along that he hated to stay behind. I wonder where we’d be if all mothers were of the same opinion as his.
I don’t know that I have anything moreto talk about this trip. Poor ettemot at a letter I know, but the best I can do this trip. The main thing is that both of us are feeling fine,
love to all,
PEED
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An A.D.S. in Prance,
Sept. 23rd, 1917.
Dear Mother and Dad, -
Am trying to get back to my old at-least-one-letter-every- ten-days habit from which I've strayed lately. As you might expect after our jsunt to Paris, this left seems more common- plaoe than ever, end as a consequence more difficult to write about. However, Iknow you’re always looking forward to my scrawls, even if it is onlya few lines.
How, you may accuse me of handing myself bouquets, but just the same, I think I’ve done remarkably well in the letter writing line, that is in comparison to the average fellow in this unit. Honestly, I’d be ashamed to sign my name to some of the letters that they send home. Of course there ien’t a great deal to write about, but a fellow should be able to write more than one or two pages to his folks. The gang kid me quite often vhen I sit down and tear off what Sammy my term my "biography". But as long as we derive mutuel pleasure from my "biography", let them rave, say I,
Have been up here for four days now, and haven’t carried a stretcher as yet, It t ie really marvellous how few casualties the
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