Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-20
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
Learning te Be Doctor.


 describing his work at the hospital
 I am taking pleasure in writing to you @ few lines to let you know 1 re- ceived the package both of. you sent me and I thank you both very much. am smoking one of the cigars while l am writing this letter and. believe me, certainly do like the Norwich cigars and the apples. I can picture myself home picking some of them off the trees to store away for the winter Well will probably be doing it again pretty soon. Yes, I was longing for apples and now I have them and plen- ty of them, but I can eat anything from my home town.
 Now for the candy Yum Yum. You both sknow I never ate much candy while I was home, but now I can't get enough. Well, I thank you both, ma and Bob. for what vol both have done for me and some day I may be able
 to pay you both back
 We'll, I am glad to hear you are all in the best of health. I am feeling pretty good, only for a bad cold and | sore right art1. It was so sore on Sunday that could hardly lift it, but 1t is getting a good deal better today. | guess the night work don't agree with me very much, but I have it easy; all I do is to sit at my desk in
  gar in my mouth. my less crossed and writing out patients names well the 1 first part of the evening from to g, I go around and take all the patients temperatures and pulse and then I go hack to my desk, sit down, with a ct- gar in my mouth, legs crossed, put ting down the patients names, tenn reratures and pulse time. After I get that done I rest myself back in the | Sl ne- I 1TH.V1s, ,sg-@ cause I am smoking a cigar from home from my folks. meaning my sis ter Bob and mother.
 Well, when I come back home again l will be as good 8 doctor. Ali of my Iatients here in this hospital call me Doctor, and you can well imagine how proud I am that I can do my bit for Uncle Sam in the line of taking care
 of his soldiers and doing my best to
 make them we'll again. Yes, the night
 nurse tells me 1 am giving the pa | tents more care than any of the other fellows in any of the other hospitals
 and she told me to keep it up. She is certainly nice nurse too, believe me l She is full Of fun. Every time she l comes into my ward or in other word | hospital, she stays there an hour and we talk about different things. She | is the head nurse. too, and anything, 1 want to know she tells me Last night l wasn't feeling very good and I told | Ter about it. She said, You're not
 sick, Bill. but I will give you some
 medicine" and she did, and, believe me, 1t was some awful tasting stuff
 but l felt better after 9 while. Just to tell yCu how good she is, after she gave me the medicine she told me to 1 lay down for a couple of hours and she would take care of my patients
 until 1 felt better. Of course she would come and look after me about
 e1 cry fifteen or twenty minutes ard
 ;,Sk me if 1 felt better. Well in a couple of hours I got up and told her
 felt good and I could lcok after my ;
 self and my patients and so she said al right but take good care of your I self
 Just think of it. she is only twenty
 one years old and a head night nurse. That's pretty good, isn't it? She is
 Well. I'll say so. What do you think
 about it?
 Say, listen to this. Here is where
 fooled the night nurse d couple of
 nights ago. I had some blackberry jam and of f-codrse my tongue was all
 black or blue from the jam. Vel
 anyhow, when the night nurse came in 1 said, "Oh, nurse l am sick" and
 she says. flows that; you don't look
 sick Well, says, Look at my tongue and I showed it to her Shr
 said, What's the matter; how dit your tongue get that way" We'll, she took my temperature and pulse ant said that was all right. She could SC, anything the matter with me, b1 she was going to give me some moro medicine. and I said, "On, TO yol don't" She said. '.Yes, take it: it ma, s i help you" and I said What do yot s mean. help to wash the blackherr? s tam off Of my tongue?' and then yol s ought to have seen her laug1i. 2 drought she would go into mysteries 2 Well, after she laughed enough shr ] said, q didn't think of the blackberr, jam we had for supper and I said | Well, did" and she says, T SC 4 you did and you won't fool me tn 5 next time"
 Well. Max and Bob can you bIam I me for liking it so much down here Yes. I like it down here very much q but no matter how much I like it dow q here. home, sweet home, for me ever < time That's place don't thin N anybody could forget-home, swee s home.
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