Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-06
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Field Hospital Co.
No. 112


The measles epid smic camo we'll
night slipping a figurative wrench
into the smoothly running, machine
like efficiency of the spossum" last
Monday morning Our expert dietic-
ian, M. Hohley Mcclure, developed a
case and Immediately his entire tent
was placed in quarantine. In the
same tent with him are the other two
cooks Greece Sergeant" Lewis w.
Panayakis and MIR. +. Isaac Craig.
Although they sincerely sympathized
with eomrade Mcclure in his fmisfor
tune, Mr.. PanaNalxis' remarks were
claracteristicaly terse and to the point
even though Of tho type. vulgarly ex-
pressed in print hy-xs ?$s?, while Mr.,
Craft unburdened himself OF his usual
noncommittal grunt. expressing neith-
er pleasure nor dismay at their en-
forced vacation of 81 days For a while
our popular Mess Sergeant Porter, af-
ter the blow fen, wandered around
with the stunned and vacuous express
sion of one who has received news that
his furlough has been O. KID. Into
this jumbled maze of nerve shatter-
ing coincidence, dashed madly, Priv
ates Calhoon. Greer and Rubert, with
the proud determination to do and toll
triumph in the face of all odds, and
took up the official badges and duties
of our Cars of the Kitchen. How well
they have succeeded, is evidenced by
the fact that certain of the "Possuns~
are thinking of turning. revolutionai-
lists in support of these younk Ke-
rensky's and keeping the deposed czars
in duranee-vile indefinitely.
Squire Wilson, of Clarion, Pa, has
been laid up for the past ten days with
on 81 ,,-s.,.
gentle reader-gout in the army!
Should our conserving friend, Brother
Hoover, hear about it, he, no doubt,
would make a deliberately unfriendly
attack" upon the army leader, laboring
under the mistaken impression that
our chow is much too elaborate for
soldiers fare which would, indeed, be
a grave error
If We editorialy speaking, Of course
hadn't seen many time and oft,
the elephantine grace and giraffe like
dexterity, with which Holt numbers
through a basket BAH game, he would
have a laundering hard time proving
an alibi for the beautifully decorated
eye which he collected in a collision
in game few days ago.
The .Possums" have a crack fire.
fighting organization In fact, til
stands so well in the eyes of our fireI
marshall, that when they were called
out on account of a small blaze at /: 80
a. m. Friday morning, in one OF the
Motor Supply Train Companies-he
had such confidence in their ability to
cope with any situation, in the fire
fighting line that he stayed within the
gently encircling arms Of Morpheus
1t is with great pride, that we call to
your attention such an efficient organ
ization.
Dame Rumor has it that Pierce's
hearing is bad. To our certain l1now1-
edge. there are three times during the
day when, for keenness in that par
ticular sense. he has all the Injun
Scouts of lurid boy fiction. beaten to
a frazzle-at mess times! Moreover,
the whelehearted and handed
manner in which he sails into his
viands, is at once, the envy and won
der of some of our rather dyspeptic
young men. Should we lose Pierce,
our only logical candidate for his hon
or is Adam Diehl
1t is a sight for the gods and men
to see our dashing equestrien, Krap~
fel, ambling hither and yon about the
division, astride his spirited palfrey,
Mercury. He is becoming so expert
now, that he only bumps up and down
on the saddle, at every second or third
step of his steed. We entertain grave
fears, however, fore the straight and
shapeIy contour OF his limbs, because
his knees. since he is spending SO many
hours in the saddle seem TO be acquir
ing the growing antipathy for each
other, best Illustrated by a pair of par
enthesis.