The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-08-24
BILL AND MABUL

Ht Allunllt DHVlltt IL lHe name
Of little publication issued on board
the transport on which Frank Smith
son of Mrs Harry II. Smith. helps
take the boys over to France Sranli
has recently sent his mother few
copies and from them we have taken
the following:
Dear Mabul
| aint had no time TO write since we
left Wadsworth on account OF bein on
detail and guess this letter wont
mean much because all the letters are
sensured aud the fello what sensures
| the mail IL the minister and he dGes
L with the sissors and Sgt Brophy
says he aint got no use for wimmen
or soft stuff so "A fellows letter looks
! like II was hit with scrapnel when he
gets thru with It, SO without me tel
! ling you Mabul you can know that |
am still stuck on you, Well were on
the ocean all right and guess fool
/ I'd your ola man and YOU can tell h.m
he can send me the five dollars be-
cause | aiut been sea sick Ike he bet
| would There alnt much 10 tell cX.
ccpt no matter which way fellow
looks he gees the ocean, ! guess the
guy what runs the ship don't know
do Is z!g-zag first one and then the
the other, Were going about 90 nots
an hour. That's naughty cal term
Mabul which means how fast were
goin, A little deep for you eh Mabul
but II don't take me long To get on to
the new stuff. guess I'm "a good "a
some OF these fellos what's been sail
ors all their life. Quick that's me all
over Mabul. | don't know what nots
is yet but the Sgt, told me a guy sits
up on the front step on the boat and
ties nots In rope and It takes so
many nts TO get acrost. That seems
Ike funy way TO me. | lnterdooced
myself to one OF the ships officers TO
day and told him who | was. ast
him why they didn't have sign posts
like out home and he said they tried
I but the flying fish used 10 sit up
~ them and eat the paint off so
lot of ships lost thor way. That's
funny aint II. They split the ship In
TO troop spaces" | guess. they cali
them spaces because when all the
guys get IN there aint no space left
and when they get In their hunks 1:
smells just like when your old man
takes his shoes off Only worse. You
know how this Is Mabul. They got
some fresh fellos on board Just like |
they had at Wadswo-th They think
they know IL all Up in the front of !
the ship Is the well deck but there !
aint no well there and I'm the middle
Is the mast and In the top is "A birds
uest Sgt. Brophy told me the cap
tain said was to take up some
bread what we had left over from our
sandwiches and feed the crows. You |
can go up inside the mast altho there |
Is ladder up the outside but the Sgt |
said only sea dogs went up that way. |
! amt seen but one dog since we
been on and the fellos brought that
one on and he cant 90 up on no lad
der. Well | got up all right but
there wasn't no crows there only a
couple OF fellos with glasses looking
for somebody out on the ocean and
they got sore when told them why
came up there. Well | told the Cap
tain and he got sore and then he
laughed and said there was no crows
here. That shows what dumb guy
The Sgt. is and he thinks he knows II
Ill. ! didn't say nothing to him I'll
lust let him go on thinkin there's
rows up there Clever eh Mabul. All
.hese fellOs have different ways to
teep from getting sea sick One guy
'ays not TO eat anything and then he
Iorrows everything he can and eats Il
hey wont let me work It.. II is right
beside the garbage shoots. That's a
oke Mabul but | CESS you wont un-
lerstand II. | borrowed fifty cents
rom new fello In my troop space
What don't know me and bought some
chocolate and brought It back here
n my bunk so these fellows cant bor-
ow none. There always borrowln
tuff, SO now | guess | can write in
'ieco' There was letter in the Shut
lie that fello wrote his girl. A mush
love letter The Shuttle Is paper