The Washington times., 1917-12-31
WORK
Of YIN. C.A.AT
BATTLE FRONT

wish to tell you this-I am well To-
Gated with a fine regiment
1T is showing outside now. | am
sitting by the fireside in a nice coy
room trying to write a few letters. but
IL is terribly hard to write when one
has no letters to answer. 'C'cst la
Guerre' (such is wsr). We are far
from any large towns, so Xmas pres
ents are out of the question. II
surely looks like Xmas here now:
the snow is beginning to pile up. A
merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
to all. This will be a lonesome Xmas
for me. but 1 have spent one Xmas
away from home, so I guess 1 can
stand another.
Yes, He Writes French.
Dec ., 1917.
'Je siuis tres bien as usual.
81 am getting along fine here. When
am not busy I am studying French,
and have plenty OF chance to practice
1t at the house. II showed some to
day, but that does not bother us a bit.
/ have taken out $4,000 insurance
and bought two Liberty bonds. wish
! could tell you all the experiences
that have had and everything that
I have done. but I have to put my
o. X. at the bottom OF il, so it is
impossible. will have just that
much more to tell you when 1 get
back to the States, won't I?
at sure would tickle you to see the
old people here and the young also
hobbling about in great big wooden
shoes. But for the mud, l bet they
are great, and we have plenty of that.
l was greatly amused when / arrived
here on going out in the morning TO
see an old Eray-haired man coming
down the village street footing an old
rusty tin horn, when, 10, and behold.
from the houses, yards, barns, and
sheds came innumerable goats flock
ing around him and calmly following
him off to the fields to feed. The
Pied Piper sure.
Wearing His Tin Hat.
1--WE have our tin hats now. and
they certainly look funny on some
people, but they make great um-
brelIa.
Dec. I3. 1917.
81 am going to have my pictures
taken in my helmet and in my cute
little French peaked hat. as I UNDER
stand We are allowed to send home
any personal photographs.
81 am well taken care Of here, have
an orderly who speaks French, and
am learning a lot from him.
Il read in the Boston paper that
the Red Cross were doing wonders for
the draft army. giving them parties.
cigarettes, automobile rides, etc. Well,
my money will go to the Y. VI. e. \.
hereafter; they are doing their finest
to make the men comfortable here,
and We have not heard a word from
any other organization.
THE men in the draft are living in
steam heated barracks near home
where they have everything they
need, and VIC are thousands of miles
away, where VIC cannot get all the
luAurics Of the States, but We do
get all the help tnT y. VI. e. \ can
possibly give us.
Hunting Wild Boar.
I'VE have n new sport here wild
boar hunting. ana have seen a
couple Of big ones too.
TBnsn SU fddGV puG Usw uG T.
The wind H. bowling outside To beat
the band right now, and ] guess
things will bc frozen solid In tho
mOEninG. We have had quite "A bit
Of snow, but of course that does not
stop our work in the least, because
we are In this game to win. Il
met young Snow, an old friend OfS
mine, the other day: ] had not seen
him since We landed. We came over
on the same boat. Send me some
cigarettes, ! am hungry for some
good ones; they are scarce article
here"