Graham guardian., 1918-07-05
PENROD ON THE U..S.S.C. Army
By BOOTH HARRINGTON

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DEAR Mr.. SECRETARY: - A
kind of friend of mind told me
you wrote to him to tell me to
write a letter about raising veg
eatables to eat and all. His
name is Mr.. Harrington or sump-
thing like that and he said he
void adress the letter and all
and write what is at the top of
this to start with. Well do not
know much about raising veg
eatables yet but will tell you all
know. Miss Spence said our
class better join the U. S. School
Garden Army and when she says
we better why we usulay we got
to. Besides she said the U. S.
Government says so too and it is
the School Garden Army is an
Army of the U. S. Government
and if = we belong to it we are
just As much in the Army as if
we had guns, and will get a
badge and all and besides can
get some money by selling the
vegbles. Well, | void like to
have some money and so void
any other boy and girl. Besides
this | wold do it anyway because
if | am in the U. S. S. G. | am
in the Army and have a badge.
And | can eat some of the veg.
bles myself and all. Well any
body wants to be in the Army
of course, so | am now a going
to be member of the army.
Anybody what says | am not
going to be ask whoever they
like they will tell them quick
enough / am going to be in the
Army because | am going TO be
in the u. s. S. G. Army. 1t has
the y. S. before it and | guess
that Is enough for me | guess.
Well so we thought we better
get some practice raising some
vegetables, so we went to Sam
Williams yard and got two col.
ored boys 80 as to have them tC
do good deal of the work, as
they have got to work almost al
the time anyway at their owr
house. These two colored boys
they used to live in the country
out about five and one-half miles
and they know how to raise
cabaj and all.
Well, Sam said we could dig
up his back yard and he void
help some. We also got some
seeds that we got by trading
some old iron to the rag man,
and we had onion seed and we
had some potatoes eyes and some
corn. Well, it did not look like
much use. You can dig up a
yard and put these things in and
cover them up, and maybe put
some rich dirt on top, and it does
not look like much use, I tell
you. Wei, we sat around there
after school for several days;
when we had put all these things
in the ground we felt like we
wished they would come up SO
we cold look at them.
This is not the first time Sam
and | have planted seed because
expect in our time we have
planted more cherry stones and
peach stones and orange seeds
and lemond seeds and apple
seeds and once we must have
planted anyway 1000, 600 water
melon seeds in our yard but you
cold go to the place 1000, 00C
times and look at it for a couple
of hours if you wanted to, but
you void never see any differ.
ence. But that was when we
were little and now we are going
to be in the u. S. S. G. Army of
course we would know better.
When we were little we would
just as leaf do our planting in
in October as any other time.
Well so one morning before
school Sam Williams called ME
to come over there and he was
all hopping when l got to our
farm because there was a little
plant sticking up out of the
ground and signs of some more
coming with little leaves and all.
tell you we never did feel bet
ter than when we say that be-
cause it was our own little plant
on our own little farm and it
made us feel hungry like we
wanted to eat it ourselves right
away but we did not because of
course it would be too young and
if we went and eaten it we cold
not sell it. Well, we were pret-
ty glad all day and after school
we sat and looked at our farm
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