Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-13

Dear Min: I guess you'll be sur
 pr1sed to hear from me so soon, but gee, there's nothing much to do but write letters in this place. It's kind of pretty, with pigs and cows and everything, but dead! Believe me, it's the limit. You know it wasn't me that wanted to come. It was my sister Cert. I'm crazy about Cert, so I'd do pretty near anything she asked me to, but she's got swell idea of good time-rupning around picking flowers! That's Gert'S idea of grand doings. And there's a bunch of school teachers here that feels the same way. Gee, I want to pitch 8 fit every time 1 go down to the table and lamp that bunch of danes. The worst of it is Cert wants I should go with her and her bunch all the time I wish was like Cert, but they don't come in cou- pies. Ones all one family's entitled to. Well, write soon. Your MAMIE
 Dear Min: Thanks, awfully, for your letter; but, say, kid, it makes me sick to think of dancing on the muicipal pier I wisht I could been there with the crowd the other night. Yesterday I walked thousand miles with Cert and Iher teachers. Gert's brown as anything and looks pretty as movie star. I wish there was some fellows around to look at her, but she don't give a rip about the fellows. Ain't it funny? It's me that's worrying her All she worries about is giving me a good time Write soon. MAMIE"
 Dear Min: You're a good old scout | to write so soon. Thanks. No, there isn't any chance of me being able to ditch it and come back home. I got to stick account of Cert. How I wish something would happen so I could just sit on the porch and read and go in to my meals and come out and sit on the porch and read again and then go to bed and vice versy. But I can't it's just one nick after another until I don't scarcely 1 have time to eat my meals, and when I get to bed I keep my feet going all | the time, because when I'm up I don't do nothing but walk. Write soon, MAMIE" 1 Dear Min: Say, things is improv- 1 ing. Night before last the landladys | son blew in on a furlCw or whatever 1 they call it. Uniform and everything some class; what? You'd ought to
 seee that bunch of school teachers sit up and begin to take notice. Every one of them come to supper with per fectly new complexions and every 1 thing, and after supper they brought
 out their, you know ul1uleles and played and sang. A fat lot of good it did the school teachers to doll though. 1 That soldier boy couldn't see any body but Cert the minute he lamped her. Her and me and him and the 1 school teachers went hicking today. i He asked Cert to go and she asked the rest of the bunch. That's Cert i for you! Shes so scared of hurting 1 somebody's feelings she'd invite all the pigs and cows and chickens to go along if she thought they wanted to. That soldiers some boy though. He was smart enough to lose about half of the teachers before we got home and this morning we didn't start out with but only six. He's cute kid all right. I bet by the end of the week he'll have even Sister Name sidetracked along with the school teachers. but the difference will be that Sister Name can't hardly wait till she gets hers and the school teachers stick around like they was in the secret service and the MT. Sol dier was hoaTding sugar up his sleeve Gee, but I'm sick of walking around
 Yours, NAME. Dear Min: It all flShl- tee, hui wisht you could see me. I'm sIttin&
 on the porch with my shoes orr ans
 my switch in my lap and I'm having
 the time Of my young life
 About day before yesterday I'd I thought it was swell to- break q leg or two so I wouldn't have to go nick
 ing any more. But I'm all right now
 l. was the soldier man that cid the
 trick
 By yesterday he'd managed to ditch
 all the school teachers and this morn-
 irg he begun on me. He says to Cert
 your sister looks awful tired don't you
 think? He kind of winked at me and
 II kind of winked back to let him
 know l was on. I come right back al
 him and tells him was about all ir
 with that long hick we took yesterday
 I says: All I'm going to do today i;
 sit on the porch, I says, and loob pretty
 eve kidded back and forth unti
 Gert was all for putting me to be, ard staying home to baby me had
 not told her that I just had head
 ache and all needed was to sit Guiet