Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-21
LETTER FROM
FRANCIS McDERMoTT
Somewhere in France,

Friend Pokey:
have received several boxes,
land some of them, could not tell
from whom they came, but never
theless, they know. who ever sent
them, and have not received a |
letter of thanks from me. There
for, wish to thank them through
you. Each Of us i'm this Co., made
up from G. & N. w. employees re-
ceived box from the remaining
employees and officers, which
(which was the best box of any
of the Co.'S. TO their employees. II
lcOntained twenty cans of tobacco,
a carton of cigaretts. a pipe, box
of cigars, candy, gum, and chew
ing tobacco; also a high grade of
stationary. II was highly appre-
ciated by ALL
Say, Pokey, you would have
laughed to see the small town
kids in Paris. guess every one
knew we were coming through,
because they had man from
Parliament there to meet us. The
reason we knew he was from Par
lament he had NJ. P. on his sleeve
and he asked us for our furloughs
the first thing. He then took us to-
I an office, and at Il desk we saw
some guy; he told us to go to him.
we did. said, Hello! Old Kid, y.
and he looked at me and said, do
lyou Know You are Talking To
an Officer?' said, Had
Only seen your face, Excuse me-"
He said, What kind of a Soldier
are Your l said, lard soldier,
"Why?" Well, he said, You are
a long ways from headquarters,
laren't you?" He thought he could
lget cute. We went from there on
down the main street, and d.
, if they haven't got the street ears
!, in the trenches too. We tried to
buy the Eiffcl tower, but some
il guy from Council Bluffs, had al
| ready spoke for it.
You may think we are having q
|gOod time over here as we did on
the farm, but you are wrong. l
sec by your paper. according to
the Douglas boy, that over in
France were not seeing much.
Over here, I'll say we are not see
ling as much as he is, if he's see
ling pie, cake, and egg sandwiches.
We are seeing all the war we
icare to see though when eight of
Those doves come over at once an
ithose doves come over at once
9 land start picking them off at you.
I That's plenty war. Our menu for
3 breakfast is rice and bread one
+ informing, then the next morning,
bread and rice. Tomorrow we get
l tea. We feel more like Chinks ev-
ery day. There is one good thing
we have and that is the place we
have to write our letters. No, it is
not the A. Y. M. C. A. it's the H.
p. II. p. stands for, A He'll of a
Place. We can't write when it is
raining or showing, or blowing;
because we can't keep the candles
lit.
Say, | Offered a Frenchman an
i. American dime, and he said it was
no good. Can you beat that?
When we went TO Paris, we
!. lwere supposed to buy ticket to
J. ride part of the way, but we didn't
!. and we got away with it, They
!. asked us for one, but we did not
|: know what they were talking
about. We rode with Col, Gen,
and all the big birds with nice
big feathers. l guess we weren't
: slow, were we? Yes, am stand
ing in good with the censor, you
know he and used to husk in the
n same row. He has promised me
v the hand of one of his girls. Ha,
o Ha, am trying to kid some one,
f and if don't watch my step I'll be
4 kidding the Censor, and you can't
q kid him. Can you George?
g Well, Pokey, the Eng. 13. that
n came from good Old U. S. A. was
Il christened 18Th, by the Colonel
He used bottle of French Cham
paign in the act. Everything is 1a
with us. have often wondered il
we are going to be here 10 years
If it takes 13 years to lick the
y Kaiser, 13 goes. They have got
8 him jumping now. "ah" yes and
d knitting too. Will close. Many
?. thanks to the unknown givers.
FRANCIS