Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-09-18

and watch US. Ihey never spoke TO
us unless spoken to and then they
would ask a thousand and one ques-
tions-how do you do this, and why
that and what seemed to get their
Nanny was the way we knew and in
terpreted hugle calls. That is the
way we get the bulk of our orders.
Well the Skunk just came along and
sends his regards and invited me down
the hole to write letters. Believe /
told you Micky is a Papa; has a fine
boy. He lives down here all alone
quite a ways into the woods. To en-
ter one goes down four steps and in
to a room five feet high, four wide
and ten long. The roof is made of
two layers of ten inch logs, sheet ir-
on, dirt, sand bags and brush. He
has shelves on the wall for trinkets.
tobacco, ETC.. His bed is of boards
raised four inches off the ground,
then there are pockets or pigeon holes
dug into the walls to keep stuff and
nails in the logs to hang clothes and
equipment. A regular home I'd say
No wonder such a well-to-do guy can
get a wife and raise a family.
Today / had a real bath. Built a
fire and heated a pail of water and
then I scrubbed and secured until I
was as red as a boil. The last three
baths 7 boxo bod boxxo hoo,, -, crr;orc
and were rather cool. Then / wash
ed my underwear. We found a metal
horse feed trough of German descent
and it's fine to boil clothes in. Made
a clothes line of German telephone
wire and clothes pins out of twigs.
Sufficient unto the day is the need
thereof" and we always get by. We
have learned to make our home
where e'er we may be and are happy
Just at present we have f1eas to
contend with. Never have / seen any
thing like it and one could hardly be-
'ieee there could be such multitudes
of them out in the forest miles from
the nearest town. No American camp
ever sets into such condition but
those who were here before us left
a path of filth and we must make the
best Of it. All of our garbage and
waste goes into holes and is cover
ed. They and our stables are doped
with a chloride of lime. We burn all
rubbish daily. Our water is either
boiled or chlorined and we have no
wine or beer-nothing but men, hors-
es and trucks with out limit. We
get very few papers. They and our
mail are the only things keeping us
in touch with civilization.
Sent a card a day or two ago ask
ing you to send me 50 worth of
stamps. have some boche helmets.
gas masks and stuff to mail you and
must have U. S. stamps and there are
none to be had where we are.
Sometimes we have no way to mail
a letter and there are a good many
things come up that we cannot tell
you of. The souvenir Mrs. Burton
has, the blue cloth with bursting
bomb in gold thread, is a French col
lar ornament.
You people all speak of auto rid
ing. l cannot recall seeing a single
car driven for pleasure only on this
side of the water and I see more ma
chimes in one day than you see in a
week-it's necessary business or war
the joy has all gone out of life.
Would like to call on some of your
French Orphans | hear so much about
but their present homes are far from
here You can depend that they are
sincere in their admiration of Amer
lean Godmothers and also the kisses
they send is a custom of this coun-
try.
Ned Ivey.
Address: Ned w. Ivey, 1st Glass Mus
ician Hdqtrs. Co. 12O Filed Artillery.
American e. F., France.