The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-07
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Interesting Letters from Everett II. Wal
do to His Parents Here. :.

The following is made up of extract:
from three letters received by Mr.. aat
Mrs. H. B. Waldo from their son, Everett
The first letter was written Oct II.
Dear Mother: 81 imagine you have
wondered good many times where ! am
Now | imagine you will wonder what
am in the hospital at Liverpool for. II
is nothing but measles, but that is
enough. 1t was awful being sick on the
ship with no one to care for you, but
was not seasick. You don't need to
worry. for the nurses here are fine and
we are having good care and enough to
eat.
II think | can tell little of the trip
over. We went from Westfield directly
to -. where we took the steamer.
We went to We waited there
something like three or four hours, then
started out again. There were - ships
in all. The weather was very decent,
mostly The feed was very poor. Two
or three days before we landed, we were
met by U-boat destroyers to escort us
the rest of the way in. We didn't even
see submarine.
"The trip was very tiresome and most
of them said trip back to the u. S.
would end their sea travelling. ] think
j should enjoy the trip under ordinary
circumstances. Everett"
The second letter was written Oct %:
"Dear Mother: | am still in the hos
pital, but am up around, so it does not
seem as bad as it did. We have foot
ball here that affords some amusement
when it is pleasant. 1t is funny to see
them play football over here. The ball
lis round and they cannot touch it with
their hands. | like our way best
'The weather is rather disagreeable
here One minute the sun will be shin
ing and the next it will be raining The
winter is like that, with very little snow,
but lots of cold weather, and of course
it is damp cold
eve have five meals a day over here,
one at 9, one at 10, one at IL, one at 4
and one at Z, and still | am hungry ev-
cry time We are only allowed six ounces
of sugar per week apiece, so you see we
don't get much sweet. What they do get
costs l6 cents per pound. No one is al |
lowed to make pie or cake. They have
lots of bread, but it is not white bread |
/ like it and think there is more nour-
ishment in it than in the white bread
such as we have at home.
"The English soldiers have all the sug-
ar they want and they couldn't other |
wise. You never hear a word of com |
plant about it either. You don't know |
how easy it is to get along without |
sugar. We have real good feeds here.
Everett"
Letter No. 3, written Nov. Is:
Dear Mother: Well, | am going TO
try and write letter, but don't know
as you will ever get it, but hope YOU
will | left the hospital yesterday. with
IL other fellows. We first went to Liver
pool and then to London. From London
we went to Southampton. | am still
here.
THE captain we were told to report to
was not TO be found, 50 we went to what
IL called the soldiers rest camp for the
night. | slept on the floor, but luckily
we had blankets enough to keep us
warm. | would like to get back with the
regiment. wherever they are. ] haven't
the slightest idea, but they are some
where in France.
you can find my location by looking
IL up on the map. You will see that
j am getting into an interesting country.
The trains travel very fast here / don't
know how they can do it, for the en-
gines are very small. The cars are very