Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-22

enjoy the dinner as I havo never ate such good cabbage in my life The gravy just made it delicious.
 -l We got paid yesterday and I have now in my possession one hundred and twenty francs. But out of the big figure I have just about $20 ill Amer ican money.
 The. French soldier thinks We get an awful big. pay because we get on the aNerag ge of thirty dollars per month. Just think how much they must think of their country. a private gets on the front seven cents per day and then he, has to allot Z cents per day and mind you, when I say seven cents I make no mistake. I've got it correct, and g. fellow at the back. of the lines he gets just five cents per day. X good pay, is it not for man who has a family?
 Mrs. OlHer.. back in Sempdes, her husband was killed in action, so she receives about six francs per day for herself and three children and about three francs for her mother who lives with hen
 About the flies, there are enough of them here, as I've never seen so many in all my life and I've been on salt and fresh water, in cities, and country, clean and unsanitary places. but never seen so many flies.
 We are on land recently hetd by the Germans and if they are not d bunch of pigs, they have done all they possibly could to put the place unsanitary, expecting to kill us with disease.
 Bees, bees, yes, we have plenty of them. almost as much as flies. The ,7 projectile from the enemy. If 2, projec- tile does not land too close we don't even mind it but the d. bees, the little yellow jackets. Every once in q while we can hear fellow curse for all he! ever was worth end we need ask, no question any more, for he will come out after while Of cllrsing. d. the bees anyhow. they ara more dan gerous than the enemy artillery fire. This morning when we woke up. Edgar and I. we had a third one in the bed and he was a neu1ai, too. We don't often see any who is at the front in the range of the. enemy guns, and he the neutral. why l believe he was here when the Germans htld the land and still he didn't fight and is not harmed by anybody because I believe he has done as much good for the
 enemy as he is doing for US. We'll, I may as well tell you wllo it is, it's a nice little gray cat. we woke up and l he was in the center of both of uS So
 I played with him 9 whila until finally he got sick of us and went away and | I've not seen him since.
 i You may wonder why write such q 1 long letter Well, I've pianty of time to myself and the weather is nice so ! I can sit down quite comfortable and l write and besides it n1ake quite a 1 while l had not written a real letter 1 to you. fr. 1T
 Sometimes as I stop and think it is 1 hard to believe that I really am about 1 4,0e0 miles away from nome in a ] world all new. and strange and be ] sides this experience of. the front one 1 may never realize until iIe stops to 1 think. it over, This is the kind of a
 place that. will make a felioW think of the good home he left behind and l of the. friends and relatives and most of all it will put new. ambitions in l his mind. -.
 { You would laugh to hear some and l most of the fellows talk. Che will ex- 1 press the ambition he has ir his mind | and then the other, but they always end the same They always have got good jobs and then they marry the l girl they left behind and i've happy
 ever. after.
 !! My ambition is music and music ! only if live through. You may tel Homer to hurry if he wants to play 1 in. the band to make us march home because I think he won't have much time to practice for we may march | home sooner than you expect.
 Even though I can't work on the l guns or canons l get efen with the 1 Germans because I four.d a German 1 rife which are plentiful around here
 and some, ammunition and set tar 1 get practice at the kaiseTs s expense The rifles are good but I would
 rather shoot 8. good old Springfield any day of the year.
 1 If you could send me Norwich
 Bulletin once in a while I would bt
 very thankful to you and you coult
 send me so1.e gum once 1T, a while l also.
 Just ask enc of the cobeille girE how they fix it the way then send u
 Edgar and you will see it is not mucf
 trouble.
 Let me know if you have receivet
 the 20 francs l sent y;1i1 a few 1 months ago. I'm beginning to thinl
 1t has never reached you, if not will try and sent another.
 Let me know if you receive thi
 sixteen-page letter of l2ugUst 30th
 Don't expect to receive such long one
 every day. Hope you are all well a
 ever. I remain as ever, your son.
 BUGLER DAVID c. HERBERT, 1 Bat D. 56th Art Reg. c. A. C., I > American Expeditiona,y
 Forces France. | raiIa1tino HAr14=n Sost>Arirs