American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-04-12
%.ARmoNIcA AIRY.

N'rom a Letter 20 the Editor)
We need everything you a turn
out in the shot and shell line and
Ne need music too. writes q who de-
arrlbes himself ae q buck private
snmeRhcr ID the Flanders mud
elfm sitting here IN q dngout that
used 10 be a shell-hole and there's q
guy IN the next dugout who's got a
harmonica and you can hear him blow
Ing Il al the time. His name Ia HAr-
We call him Armonica AIRY. His
h~Armonica's got a history most har
monicas amt got. lie told me he got
II from a man who got killed when
We s~traiRhfened out the Wipers line
and he says that hat man borrowed
A. from a guy who went over the top
and never caue back. He's willed a.
70 me and, II be goes West. ! can have
H. amt wishin him any hard luck.
but I sure do want that harmonica.
"He calls IL a 'armonica. but ! al
ways called EN- a harp. a come from
near Broadway and FOrty-secOnd
street aud I'm going back some day II
1 ever set out OF this mud He says
10 me the other day. 'W'oever card or
O 'armonica being called q arp
Yesterday a shell tool a flop be-
hind his dugout and dumped a whole
load OF mud on him and his harmOni-
ca tie m out %sneezing and look
ing like he'd been drawed through a
sireet-sWeeper on a muddy day feet
first The nrst thing he pipes was:
'W'ere's me ~'armonica7' And the
whole gang started looking for u and
all the time he was swearing he'd quit
cold and tell the whole army 70 20 TO
ell. II be didn't ind his burned old
hnrmonica. He got It at last and Il
was full OF mud but he licked Il off
and logged II be didn't set down and
start crying and blowing something
about She Lives Down IN Our Alley
"One day he asks me II ! thought
they ave 'armonicas In 'eaven. and /
told him I didn't know because ia
never been there but that we both
stood a good chance OF Investigating
II We stayed IN FLANDERS much long
er. ] guess he won't want to 10 to
heaven II they won't let him carry his
harmonica along.
II almost got the harmonica the
other day We vent over the top al
daylight In a fog. and Armonica Ar
~ was out for blood because all that
mud had been throwed on his har
monica.
we dropped into that German
trench like a load OF bricks and when
We had it all cleaned up we couldn't
find Armonica. ! got 20 thinking how.
y Armouica had zone West. I was Co
have his h~armonica. ~Twarnt long
before we found him. was sort OF
disappointed. much as I love Armoni-
ca becauae / got 90 thinking how I'd
show them a thing or two about blow
ing 'swanoe River and things like that
these folks ain't ever heard or We
found him inside a pin box with a red
eared Fritzie backed up IN a corner.
II got a mind 90 stick this pin I'M
,ou, says Armonica. pushing his bay
unet al Fritzis middle
with that Armonica's harmonica
dropped out % his pocket
pick q up. saws Armonica. which
NE Friiric did Let's ear YOU blow
Ger
And what do you suppose Fritzie
tlowcdf You'd never guess H. She
Lives Down In Our Alley. which Ar
monica loves SO much And YOU
should have seen ArmOnica. Twas
much as We could do 10 keep him from
kissing that FRITZ and be gives him
q piece of chocolate which he'd been
saving out for O special occasion and
ines snapped addresses and promised
70 write when the war a over.
And didn't get the harmonica-