The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-19
.CHAMPAGNE IN
 FRENCH COW SHED
ATTORNEY BOUlC WRITES OF MEETING MAJOR WILLIAMS
 AND OTHER LOCAL BOYS.
Indications That He Would Have Some Very interesting News 10 Write But For the Rigid Censorship Winch Has Been Frightened Up.
Sept 22nd. lg1S
 '. <. Army P. Q. 7l6- American Forces, France

American Forces, France Dear Doug:
 l wrote you sometime ago and dol 1 Inot know just where 1 left off as myI memory of correspondence in the rush. Iof things over here at the present. | time is rather bad as so much isl crowded uto such a short space, that "a month seems like a lifetime, and for many of the boys it is more than al Lifetime. but wlll try and pick up the ltale Of woe at some point distanct from here last wrote you by starting with the present and working back wards for a short distance
 Was plouehing through the mud the Iother day hunting for bunch of troops | was interested in and 1t be- gan to rain and cut through the nell to find shelter under an old oowtshea, and a. was pulline along one foor tout and the other in came 0 d hedge and there hiding under the shed l found It. Col Caruth of the National Guards Ct Arkansas. had few worcs IWith him. and rushed on to my des- ltination, and you can well imagine Imy surprise when l got under this shelter 10 Iml Major BirlJitt Williams there. There was quite party of Arkansas loys there and of course joined the boys were having some or this wonderful champagne, there un- der the COW shed which little French "gareon' was peddling to them, and a fellow was forced to think that war lis not altogether Hell as sherman | said. but 1t was rather bad to have to enjoy such mXuries as champagne in a nasty dirty little old COW shed. | but even at that l heard no complaint ' from any source of the surroundings. l.qarned from Major Williams that Bike Eisele and Har;ly Wootten are here, but of course I have not had the good luck to run across them out he gave me to understand that they
 were well and in fine fettle Had Iquite laugh over what he told me oY-
 CT our City Attorney, who is also over lhere. and whom | have not been abe
 tc see
 Arkansas. through it's "blacks' is bound to shine The other day a
 couple of Arkansas Blackse over here came in contact with one of the Frencn
 Colonial negroes, from Africa, and they stopped him and engaged in d | conversation With him, at least at tempted 10, they stopped him and be-
 2an to talk our jargon and the Colon | ial stared him in the face, without a yeStage of expression, fter awhile the
 Arkansas Black turned to his com
 panion. and remarked that is the
 damnest negro l ever saw. he don understand his own languase' and iValked away muttering about how f queer some negroes are. It is positive i ly about as amusing a thing as a fel- low ever hopes to see when the Ar
 rican Colonial troops and our Negroes
 meet. It is simply beyond their com \ Iprehension
 The boys have made up their minds things are possible 10 our boys Whe. Ithey get over here. to spend the win
 ter in the Southern part of Germany land when Spring opens up 10 spent | the early summer in Berlin. They are
 simply knocking forty different kinds of expressions out of these Germans they don't seem to be able to grasp thC Ipep and vinegar with which our boys go after them But you know We are mot accustomed 10 people who make
 war on graveyards, destroy grave | yards. destroy tombstones, just [,