The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-03
SERGT. CAVANAUGH IN
MOTORCYCLE SERVICE
Writes Entertaining Letter from France
TO His Father-Camoudaged with
Bunch of FreckleS.

Nj. Cavanaugh has received. a let
ter from his son, sergt. E. J. Cava-
naugh, who is in France. 1t is writ
ten on typewriter and is in differ
ent vein from the usual ruin of soldiers
letters. He writes: ~.
Dear Father
Have been going to do this for some
time, but not in this form exactly. I'm
sending one to Maize done on the type
writer and will try to get through this
one as lucky as / was doing hers-only.
broke three fingers and an arm on it
and providing | don u lose my eyesight
hunting around for the different letters
before 1 finish this III let you in on
what | think of war. just to be brief
and honest with you in my idea of war,
look up what Sherman once said, and
believe me It it.
But at fiat I haven't had it so
awfully bad as / might. Have done a
bunch of travelling right along and
have been in some of the principal
cities over here and so far have had q
pretty good time of it. Have got a
new job of motorcycle dispatching now
and have good chance of seeing the
place if there s any more to it that l
haven't seen.
On one of my trips I met "Chin2'
Manning. He was going to the front,
so he said. He might have been going
to church for all know, but / haven t
seen him since, so guess he's there
all right.
Have been feeling good right along,
and we re having great weather. | spent
here for the first time in my life st.
| Patrick = day that was above 60 in the
shade. Why, / even got sun burned and
you ought to see me now, all camou-
tagged with a bunch of free kles, an UNI
usual bunch
| Got letter the other day from most
everybody over there, | guess. They
came ali In bunch, so that means
have got to answer accordingly.
| Am glad you have got good jot
and hope everything keeps going good
IN all set as far as jobs are concerned
guess, at least for big while l reck
/ on. But don t think for minute thai
IN getting homesick. Oh, No-o-o-o-o
| things over here resemble Vermont too
much for that. There IS plenty of fool
ish native 'fpolly voos' over here Il
take the place of your rpbes.
Perhaps | m not learning French
| Well, YOU ought to hear me when l ge
going with the Trenches sometimes
Why, I've got so far along that l sa,
lots of words they don't even under
stand. And talk about great scenery, tn
scenery here has everything beat. A ma
rine painter could make fortune owe
here, that is, if he could mix mud colo
in good shape, because there S lots of il
We've got boots, but / ii be glad whe
we get divers suits.
When the people at home don t seer
to be doing anything use your infuene
and authority about their hundred or S
letters they still owe me and ask the,
to please pay in full; and when 70
can t seem to find anything to do shak
. the pen yourself and perhaps by the
III have something a little more int,
!, esting to say than the foolishness II
sending now. .n
r With best luck and love to all,
.l ED.
II p. s. Since writing this letter / y
heard that Eddie Baker has died Il
was operated upon for appendicitis an
could not pull through. First one fro
[ Brattleboro.