The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-02-14

sweet nor l had a great deal to say
during that ride.
That afternoon we went back to the
city to look it over in the day time.
We walked, what seemed to me, count
less miles, along docks and wharves
at the water front. There were hun
dreds and hundreds of huge storage
buildings around which hung the same
unpleasant odors which filled the hold
of the ship i'm which we crossed. The
streets of the city were wide and
clean, and the buildings, for most part
were of modern construction, though
not as high as our buildings. There
were all sorts of people on the streets
American soldiers, British Tommies,
men invalided home who were in blue
uniform of peculiar shade, men,
women and children, but very few
young men or even those of middle
age From the moment we stepped
off the boat, this fact was very notice
able to all of us and great many re-
marks we're made about it. One thing
that attracted my attention particul-
arly was the number of people who
rode bicycles. There We're thousands
of them, propelled by people of both
sexes from six years old to seventy.
1t was Sunday and everyone seemed
to be going somewhere for holiday.
But most of the faces were not bright
and CHEEKY as we consider them, and,
as / imagine they did before the war.
1t appeared to me as though sort
of brooding seriousness hung over
everyone-bu it may have been mere
ly the British sobeIness.
We left Liverpool the next morning
at ten o'clock and boarded a, train for
Winchester. The trip across the is
land was simply immense and we
passed through some of the most
charming scenes | ever hope to see.
The fields were plotted as though the
entire country had been done by one
man, and that man an expert garden
er with a keen eye for the beautiful.
in as though placed there by a master
hand, the houses and buildings were
covered with vines and blossoms, and
every house had its own little individ-
ual garden of flowers. This was true
not only of the fields close to the
track, but as far as the eye could
reach the effect was the same. The
hills, the clumps of woods, everything
hamonized perfectly, and the gr"
even seemed more alive and verdantly
green than does ours. We passed
through the town where the Oxford
University is located and had
glimpse Of the old buildings.
When we landed in Winchester, it
was about six in the evening and it
was raining. 1t is customary to have
rain when there is a troop movement,
| have learned since. Also it was
very dark. Winchester appeared to
be much more afraid of the air raids
than Liverpool. We marched out to
when we got there we found that
some one had given us the wrong
directions and we were booked to 60
/ TO another camp three miles on tn
( opposite side of the city. 1t was
very interesting We had had moth
/ ing TO eat since that morning and W
were still seven miles from food and
place to sleep. As | said before, it
was raining. All Of us were pretty
soft, having had no exercise for three
weeks. We spent one week at Camp
Mills, and when we finally got to
Morn Hill, which was our ultimate
destination, no one even thought of
anything to eat. We were assigned
to tents, each of which contained
eight hunks. | remember of taking
off my shoes, hat, and Sam Browne,
but that is all. The rest of my
clothes were decorating my person
when | came to the following morn.
And such an appetite! Anyone
who knows me can vouch for the fact
that / can at all times eat twice my
weight in food. That morning / did
even better than that, and there were
several fellows at the table who beat
me seven ways. When we had eaten
all there was in sight, we went down
to Winchester and ate another couple
of hours. 1t was against the rules Of
the city to permit American soldiers
to eat in any of the restaurants, but
we broke several records for consum-
ing food that day.
Winchester is one of the most his
torical cities in England, and there
are quite goodly number Of famous
gentlemen and ladies resting peace
fully in and about the cathedral there
The city is in a valley and the stream