The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-04

the nerve to charge me TWO Dlts Ior
three of 'em? | amt cook, but say,
l could"
He had run into an open switch and
there was no telling where he was
going to stop, SO l tagged him and
backed him onto the main line again.
"Oh. yes-about that drinkin' wa
ter? Once was with British bunch
for while an they used that water
to make tea out of. an it plumb ruint
it."
Ruined what? The tea?"
Nav; ruint the water. There amt
no tea l ever saw that won't already
ruint soon's it was made. Why man,
tea amt hardly fit for Heinie to
drink, let alone man. / wouldn't
wonder but that's what made them
English fit so. They got all fed IN
on tea and that just naturally made
'em mad as thunder They just had to
fight somebody, an bein' as their OF
GERS kept 'em from fghtin MOI
themselves they had to take it GU
on the Germans. The Germans know
ed it too, so long in the fore part c.
the night when the grub was comm
up old Fritz would start shellin' low
down behind the lines, searchin' Tor
chow parties. He knowed he stood
heap better show if he could just keep
that mess of tea from gettin' up where
it was goin'. / don't believe this war
would of lasted near as long If the
French had drunk tea too instead OF
that trick wine stuff they're so nutty
over"
Apparently Private Ball wasn't go
ing to arrive anywhere, even though
l had headed him in the right direc-
ton. He seemed to need prompting.
"You sa-- some fighting. didn't you?
How about that?"
well, 1 reckon did see some fight
in. I saw a regular height once. We
had cook that was one of the fightin'-
est chaps / was ever among. One day
some of the fellows. got to grousein'
an kickin' bout the grub while he was
round. He stood it a few minutes an
then lit into the whole shootin' match.
Say, talk bout fghtin', why that slum-
scortcher just waded right through the
whole"
l had no doubt that it was as he
said regular height" but business,
is business.
Il don't mean that kind of scrap
ping, Buddy. Now come clean. Die
you fellows have a. hand in busting
that Hindenburg line or have the pa
pers been handing US merely line of
bunk?"
ooh, you want to know bout that,
do you? l thought everybody knowed
we busted Hindy's playhouse all to
smash. One thing certain: I'm get
tin mighty tired Of tellin' it. Don't
kl w !. ;cl. &C IL .yhow.
Il don't even know wnat day of the
week it was; there amt no Sunday
schools over there to figure from, you
know. We had crawled out into No
Mans Land durin' the night SOS we
would have good start when mornin'
come. 'Twasn't exactly ''cordin' to
schedule, but I reckon the Captain
thought it won't as dangerous as stay
in back in our trench. A Ge1nan
shell landed there once in SO often.
While we was layin' out there fat on
the ground, them Germans kept send
in up what they call Very lights, an
believe me, when one Of them things
goes up it sure is very light. Why, if
you're out in the open it looks like
the sun has rose too soon. The way
to keep. 'em from seein' you is to play
dead; an let me tell you, there amt
a possum in the world that's got any
thing on me when it comes to them
tactics. 1t amt no joke. Two or
three times that night l come mighty
near to foolin' myself.
"Well, long bout five o'clock in the