The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06
By FRAZIER HUNT,
Author of Blown In by the Draft"
Monday
SOMEWHERE IN FRANsE

are still here in this rest camp, but
] would like to see the color of the birds
mustache who give this kind Of stuff the
name of rest camp. This is about the
biggest kidding game that ever sat in at
Barney, and as far as l can see with the
nakid eye the only place you get any rest
in this mans army is in the hospitals and
you got to go and get shot or killed to
get in one of them joints.
/ CUES you remember about me writin.
you about how We was made TO go out into
Nomans Land and rist our LIES mcnding q
lot Of old rottin wire last week and how
We was shot at by the Germins and just
about a lot Of us killed and etc. Well
after we come back from that We thought
that we would sure get chanst TO have
little rest now, but such was not to be by
about eight miles. We might get a little
rested up if We wasn't made to work all the
time, and of course common buck privates
mustn't ever be comfortable and happy or
nothing like that because if they was al
lowed to that would be against all pressi-
dent.
So right away all the Generils that
didn't have nothing else to do all got to-
gether and had confidence in order to
decide what they could put US soldiers
who just come out of the trenshes and
might get rested up, doing SO as to keep
us in good conditun. I CUES they got about
O hundred or so Generils in the army who
don't do nothing else but decide such big
questions but 1 CUES that is a pretty
hard strane on some Of them at that.
Anyway after long and hard meeting
at which some of the Generils wanted US
to do genera house work and others held
out for US doing rode work and making
little one out of big one they finally all
looked awful wise and bit there finger
males and chewed about nine bucks
worth of gov. Tobacco up and then they
decided that taking everything into con-
sideration including the conditun of the
troops that il would be best for US Just 10
dig few miles of trenches way back here
in these reserve positions.
Digging trenshes! Honest Barney l
amt done a single thing since I volun-
tered for the draft a year ago now but dig
trenshes. have dug EN- all over Long
Island. Then after that l dug EN- up
and down northern Franse. Then We
moved down here to training place and
l dug about hundred miles more.
When we finally got into the line said
10 myself Thank God l may get killed or
a wing shot off but wont never have TO
dig no more trenshes And then here to-
day this order come out that our whole
battlun would have 10 start in digging
reserve positions. Can you beat that?
Already there is enough trenshes over
here to bury the whole Germin army in
and thercd be enough left to give every
body in Chincy q couple feet Of there
own.
When some Of these old Generils get
down TO where they're going TO after they
shuttle off this mortil coil | don't want TO
have TO see EN- tend to no fires or carry
out ashes or nothing like that. What 1
want to see them birds do is 10 dig
trenshes by the mile. l want TO see
EN- dig front line and second line
and reserve and support trenshes all
over hell and then connect en- all up by
nice deep communicating trenshes. And
hope the ground down there is awful
hard and the weather hot. l CUES there
mint no doubt about it being plenty big