Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-10-15
A LETTER TO HIS PA.
American humorist Has Fun at Ex.
pense Of Crown Prince.

American humorist Has Fun at Ex-
pense Of Crown Prince.
(The following was taken from q
newspaper in France and sent to Ne
vada relatives by Nevada doughboy.
who is now fghting in France:)
"on the Run Somewhere in France"
Everywhere in France"
"All The Time"
Dear Papa:
am writing on der run. as der
brave and glorious soldiers under my
command have not seen the Rhine for
so long dat they have started back dat
way, and OF course am going NIT dem.
Oh, papa, dere has been some offel
dings happened here in France. First
started in my big offensive which
was to crush dc fool Americans but
dey know so little about military tact
les dat dey will not be crushed just like
in big waves and ven dey got to de
Anne ricans dey oil said Boo" as loud as
dey could holler. Veil, according to
vot you have always told me, de
Americans have turned and run like
blazes. But vat do you tink? Dem fool
Americans don't know anything about
war and instead Of running de odder
way. dey came right towards Us.
Some Of dem vas singing about I've
Won't come back till it's over. over
here" or some odder foolish song. and
some Of dem vas laffing like fools. Dey
are so ignorant. But dey are offel
reckless nit dere guns, and ven dey
come toward us 1t vas dat my men
took a notion dey wanted to go back to
der dear old Rhine. We don't like the
little dirty Marne river. anyhow. And
Oh. pap dem Americans use offel Ian
guage. They know nothing OF kulter,
and say such ofrel things right before
US. And they blasphemy, too. Vat
you think they said right in front Of my
face? One big husky, from a place
dey call Missouri. he said-oh. pap
hate to tell you vat an offel ting he
said. To He'll nit the Kaiser!' Did
you ever hear anything so offel? |
didn't tink anybody would say such an
offel thing. 1t made me so mad i
wouldn't stand and hear such an offel
ting so turned around and run NIT de
odder boys. Vas I right? Vet? And.
Oh, papa, you know dem breastplates
vot you sent us-can you send some to
put on our backs? You know We Is 60
ing de odder way now and breastplates
are no good for the cowardly Ameri-
cans are shooting US right in der back
Some of our boys took of der breast
plates and put dem behind. for de
fool Americans are playing DE Star
Spangled Banner" nit machine guns on
dem plates. Can't you help US?
You remember in your speech you
said nothing could stand before the
brave German soldiers? Oh, papa /
don't believe desc ignorant Americans
ever read your speech for dey run af-
ter US like We was lot at rabbits -Xat-
you tink of dot? Cant you send dem
some Of your speeches right away?
Dey don't know how terrible We are.
Can't you have my army back to Bel
yium we're We Won all glory?
My men can vip all de vimmen and
vot dem Belgians can bring
Us. But desc Americans are so rough
and ignorant. We can't make dem un-
ierstand cot we hof der best soldiers
On earth and ven We try to sing "Deut-
schland Uber Allies" dey laugh like
lot Of monkeys. But We are getting the
best Of de Americans. We can out run
dem. Papa, II We are not de best fight
ers on earth we sure de best runners.
Nobody can keep up NIT us ven We tink
Of der dear old Rhine. and my army
never did tink so much Of der dear old
river.
Let me know right away vot to do by
return postoffice.
CLOWN PRINCE WILLIE.