The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-02-27

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is = line waiting now To write and so ]
will have to make this a short one and
give the next fellow chance. Won't
have chance this time to write TO
Jo, SO please forward this to him.
Give my best regards to Uncle B.
and Aunt H.. and of course to all the
people in Dorset. Love to Aunt
"Mom." viii try TO write again be-
fore long. Lots Of love to you all.
HOKE.
Letters from Private Alfred A. Sey-
mour Of the A. Z. r, to his Parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Seymour Of
Dorset.
Vitrey, Haute-Saone, France,
Sunday, January 10, 1919.
Dear Mother:
AS | have little spare time this
afternoon thought that ! would write
you few lines. 1t is raining most Of
the time today so of course we are
spending most of the day inside. But
the weather is not very cold yet so we
don't mind the rain SO much. was
fussing around the office all the morn
ing cleaning up and building fire and
afterward made myself a piece OF
toast rs did not 60 to breakfast. We
did not have to work this morning, ii
being our second Sunday morning of
while here atlVitrey. I also wrote .
letter to Mrs. Kent this morning,
answering card which ] received
from her on Friday. She said that
she received card which l sent them,
SO l conclude that several Others have
as l sent out several view cards at the
same time that l sent theirs. She
asked me to come to their house to
dinner when got home, and of course
said oui, oui Madam, beaucoup eat.
That is one thing that-I will not re-
fuse: invitations out to dinner, and the
more the better l will be suited. Oh,I
Boy! can hardly imagine q real feed,
and a real bed to sleep in.
also received short letter from
Clarence Blackmer on Friday which ]
was more than glad to get. He is
located in town near Verdun by the |
name Of Rupt. He said that he was on
the front two weeks in action with the
Field Artillery, and gave them he'll
while they were there. 1t certainly
will be interesting for me to hear all
of the boys experiences over here. II
have had some myself, but perhaps
not quite as wild as some of the other
boys. / wrote Clarence Friday night
and | hope to hear from him again
before he leaves. He said that he
thought that he would be home by the
first of March anyway, and hoped to
ind US all back by that time. He is
! bugler for his company, which does
not mean any more pay for him, but
,hink some more privileges than a
private. He said that he got my ad.
iress from letter of mine to you I
which was in the Manchester Journal,
which was the first that knew that !
ny letters had been put into print.
I'm now wondering what the letter ;
was, and what there was in it that I
,ould be interesting enough to publish.
hope to sometime see the paper and l
'ead the letter over again myself. {
)ftentimes when writing you am not ,
very particular, only to get the little /,
lews that l have to write to You as i
DON as possible, and hardly thought c
my Of them would go out of the fam /
ly. However, l am willing it should i
,e put in The Journal if it is inter
sting enough. But / hope that ! r
Ised the proper English, etc. a
| am enclosing a paper showing a "
houlder insignia which we are going d
o wear on our left shoulder taking \
he place of division insignia. 1t is a
o be worn by all men from this cen v
er. The colors as you will see are I
ad white and blue. The A. S. is rot n
attended for my initials although they n
Ir, Dut are for advanced section n
,hich we are in. 1t seems very y
TRANCE that it should happen that 3
'ay. The cross is intended to repre- v
ent the cross which Joan Of Arc car h
led when riding the horse snd lead u
,g the French people through their 81
ictorics. This same cross is now b