The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-03-28
TRENCH COOL les MAKE
sTIPPERARY" SOUND LIKE
LOCOED MULE PLAYING BAGPIPE
Fred D. Moore Sergeant Major Headquarters Battalion r4st
Field Artillery, Writes Interesting Letter
from France.

river goes along. so couldn't tell you
even if friend censor would Yet it go
by. But il is Just like any river,
composed partly of water and mostly
of mud
we are quartered in barracks OF
Of each room-some stoves. The
rooms are approximately a hundred
feet hong and one-third as wide and
the incinerator in the room will burn
a stick of wood easily, If the wood is
transformed into fine sawdust and sat
urated with composition Of filtered
gasoline and pure pitch But the
French War department has evidently
figured 1t out this way: II Is warm
during the day. SO they don't need
stove. no one keeps a fire at night. so
again they no not need much OF
stove. therefore. why spend the coin
OF the realm buying these soldiers
stoves and borrowing dough to Keep
them in fuel? Very logical. anyhow.
This country of France. having po-
sessions in many countries, naturally
has many varieties of soldiers working
for her. Chinks. Negroes. Japs and
many other Municipalities. And be-
heve me OF believe me not, multitude.
they are a humorous lot. To-day.
about a regiment OF colored soldiers
came by our camp separated togeth-
er IN lunches of twos and threes, evil
IDENTIFY they had all been to the city
and obviously they all had few
drops of cognac and other wine under
their belts They are very careless
about their personal appearance. and
seem 10 wear most anything they
can accumulate by fair means or foul.
tho their taste runs mostly TO brigh,
colors and consequently the most OF
them wear the French overeoat which
is pretty blue (when new). They
were eudeavoring to chant the song,
''Tipperay~ in English. to my deli
cate and musical ear It sounded as
tho one was trying TO get Caruso's
Job lined up. and the other reminded
me of loco mule with cold. playing
bag pipe
Blu, II is the coolie that is the in
dustrious boy. did you ever see
Southern negro disturbing the terra
firma with a pick. or carrying one
end OF a steel rails And noticed with
what diligence and whoie-heartedness
he went about his work. Wen. these
soldiers have any Moth Ca'ifna Niger
cheated forty miles for performing H.
Dor. They only speak one language.
and better than that they only seem
to say one word: watched or rather
listened TO q dozen of them working
they were going thru the motions of
moving a pile of small rails. the boss
would say "Qghxxzp" and they would
all chime in q moment later with the
same noise. stoop as tho they were
going to pick up rail and then sud
denly become imbibed with brilliant
idea. whereupon. they would drop the
rail. Gin the event they had picked It
up1 and say ''qghxxp." But this time
they would say il twice. and believe
they must have 1t made up between
them what that sound means when
spoken twice or more times can't
think what it could mean unless 1
compare II with the most frequent
statement OF an American Soldier.
when do we eat-"
But just about this time, Dad. the
censor is deciding what my fatessaaii
be for making Uncle Sam pay postage
on such n line Of ineomprehensibJs. in
coherent, verbosity-
Au Revoir.
FRED d. MOORE.
(Sergt. Ma1or.)
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