Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-07-12

having hunt for the begSafs
and kill Them. | wasn't the only
one, either. Have you ever been
lousy. Bob? If you haven't you
don't know what it is like. One
will bite you on the back of the
neck and when you go after him
Ianother will get you on the leg or
stomach and il keeps you busy
going after them. And when you
get to sweating they all start bit
ing together and then you do have
some fun.
1t is awfully nice over here
now, although a little too warm
for me in the day time-some-
thing like Iowa weather. The
trees are all leaved out and the
hedges are all green and the fruit
trees are all in bloom. The dan
deliOns are going to seed and are
flying all over the country. This
country has Iowa beat for pretty
places. They keep the hedges
trimmed up nice and they look
i like a green wall.
When | get out of The hospital
on my ten days leave / think |
will go up somewhere in Scotland
and see if | can't go fishing. |
have the fishing fever and want
to go out and sill on the bank of
some stream or lake and just
smoke and fish. Do YOU rcmem-
her the times that we used to go
fishing and what good times we
had, too? We used to think that
the mud was bad. but have seen
mud that is mud and will never
complain again of the mud we
used TO get into The mud
around there is a bed of roses
compared with the mud i'm France.
They dress US rather funny
here i'm the hospital, Bob. You
wear your pajamas for under
clothes and for your out side
clothes you have a white shirt,
size ~, with a red Tie and pair
of pants made out of flannel, and
not buttons on, and YOU keep them
closed i'm front and also up with
a gee string. You have a jacket
made out of flannel, too, so YOU
might say fellow il; running
around i'm his bed clothes. They
had a ball game here at The hos
pital the other day and The score
was ! to Ga pretty good game,
too. We have something doing
down i'm the recreation room
nearly every night, picture show
or lecture or concert, and they
are usually good, too. III doesn't
cost us a cent to 90, as every
thing is free. The concert peo-
pie and the lecturers travel
around to the different hospitals
amusing the patients. That is
something they didn't do in the
Civil war. Those poor fellows
must have had a hard time i'm the
hospitals then nothing TO
amuse them or TO occupy their
minds. | saw Princess PAT the
other day. She comes around
here every once in a While to see
the boys i'm the Princess Pat reg
imcnt. That was named after
her. There are lot of visitors
come to the hospital. but nobody
has come to see me yet. You
know don't know a soul here in
England outside of the boys that
are i'm the army.
juno ?. 1917.
Dear Friend Bob:
Your letter of May 10th came
yesterday and am going to do
nothing until l answer it. I am
coming along fine, i'm fact lit
tie too fine. ! am afraid. can
get around pretty good now. ey-
cept | still use a cane. | think |
Will be able to out-walk YOU yet.
Bob am weaker than a cat vel
though, but will soon get strong
when once | can get out and run
around. We are having awful
nice weather over here now. very
warm during the day and real
cold at night have three blan-
kets over me at night and they
are hardly enough, ii seems. Last
night the fellows i'm The ward
made me a French bed while |
was taking bath, and didn't
find it out until | started to get
into bed. had to get up and
make it over again. You know us
fellows i'm the hospital that can
have to make our own beds and
am getting to be an artist at it.
Can make my bed in about five
minutes when | hurry.
You spoke about going fishing.
Gee, wish could go along. |
haven't been fishing for so long.
don't believe | would know when
had a bite. But if there were
any lice around | sure could tell
you when had a bite. | sure re-
member The time we went up to