The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-11-19

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America for while and then be MI
lowed to return. Many a loyal Van
zee could be made by this treatment
Don't get the impression that I an
dying Of inconsistencies or anythine
like that, but. the good old u. s. A
has got it over these Old World coun.
tries so far that if it were not fol
this perfectly good war going on
mere l would not waste any time be-
coming homeward bound.
Had some postcard pictures made
Yesterday with Frank Higgins. He
1T in Battery c. Will get them Wed
nesday and you may expect my next
letter with illustrations, We have a
great many Bourbon county boys in
this outfit, and most of us have made
an agreement to mention each others
names in our letters home, so that our
respective families may hear from us
oftener. / see Merritt Slicer and Bob
Link almost every day. They have
been made Sergeants and so they are
now 'three-stripe men, Harry Bar
low, Cooper, Mcpherson, Harrison,
Breeze, Hill, Emmett and Ernest
Kiser, Mitchell, Patton, Renaker,
Wachs, Wilson and Patrick are still
with us, and are having the time of
their lives. So, if you happen to see
anyone interested in these boys fell
them they are present or accounted
for Have not seen Bob Hughes since
coming here, but his organization is
in this camp somewhere. Also, if you
happen to see any prospective for
eign service men, you might disillu-
s1onlze them on one or two points,
viz: Tell them that if they expect to
be pioneers in this game, as we did,
to forget it, for the genus Ameri-
cane soldat' is exceedingly thick in
these parts, so they won't be curl
osity. Another thing I found out
through painful experience is that it
never pays to pack extra accessories
in your roll for a mole-hill becomes
a mountain if they hike in Eng
''Since inscribing the foregoing
dashes have answered the one call
that all soldiers love to answer,
namely, mess call. We had lovely
supper served in one course, consist
ing of beans, stewed tomatoes, stew,
ed something else, rice, bread and
coffee Not bit too bad, as we used
to say in Canada. Sometimes some
of us go outside the camp, buy eggs
from one of the French girls and take
them into one of the shops, where we
have them cooked. The eggs cost
about six france a dozen, and the
cooking two farncs, totalling an
expenditure of $3.50 in real money.
They make nifty meal, though, and
the treatment is made as often as the
necessary francs are obtained.
1.-THE French people I have talked
to know great deal more English
than we do French. If we do hap
pen to get over a word they can I'M
derstand they shrug their shoulders
and exclaim, oh, la, Ia That is, the
girls do. We never talk to the men.
The shrug part is just the same as
the cartoonists draw it. l can say
a. few things in French and by wav-
ing nav arms am usually able to buy
what l want. Sergt. Hill and l went
down to get some eggs and not being
able to find any bought some grapes
and some cakes. AS we looked around
to see what else we wanted l MOTTO
ed some small bottles of pickles on
shelf. Just what we wanted. Spend
| ing our last three francs we pro-
cured two bottles of the alleged pick
les and returned to camp. We ate
our grapes and cake on the way back,
and reserved the pickles, so that we
could eat them in front of the other
| fellows and tell them where they
could buy some just like them. Ar
rived at the barracks we melted the
clamoring mob, as we expected.
Would have gotten by all right If we
had only looked in the bottles after
opening them. I stuffed all the
]spickle' in my mouth thattI could to
avoid losing too many OF them when
1.-THE inevitable rush of the other tel
Ilows to get some of them came. so
did Sergt. Hill. Somehow, they didn't
taste like other pickles i had eaten.
II turned to see if Hill was eating his
land caught him looking at me. He
}had half pickle. in his hand. The
texpfession on his face must have been
bunny. for the mob didn't make the
RESPECTED rush, but Started to laugh.
I'm our gas training we are taught to
i swallow often, and, as a prospective
tdntructor, have made it habit. So
lat happened that executed the com
tmand before / meant to. What Hill
4 had in his hand was the posterior
half of snaiE The bottles were full
of these picked snails! Hill swallow
ed some Of them, too, so L had part
liner in misery for once. Moral-Al-
iways look into small bottles OF
4 pickles bought in little French shops
/ before eating any of them.
To-day a cat came around the cor
ner of our barracks and one of the
fellows called, 'Kittie, kittie." The
cat ran to him and rubbed herself
sIagainst his hobnails. He said 1t was
the first French inhabitant that had
ever understood a word he said. On
1.-THE whole, it is not bad here and we
are growing to like it more every
day. The thoroughfare that passes
Hin front of our barracks is public
roadway and lots of funny traffic goes
tby. Miniature gdonkeys pulling great
clumsy, two-wheeled carts, teams of
lhorses with yokes on their necks. big
fvsra-n