Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1919-04-21
HARRY HICKS WRITES
 FROM FRANCE
Ccontinucd from Fridays issueJ

iItA SiN iiltit arc eleven tnOuSanL !
 ir the grave yard at the camp where | am now. All Canuck's 1t was in |
 the last big push l got mine" quick. Two weeks in hospital and the con valesccnt camp. Before | got out we |
 had peace again. The life of a Sour Dough. That's all it was. And. say, Al. the gang sure did get it. Fellows 1 that you have mixed with for months l sometimes The first thing you know then it is: Did you hear that so and ]
 SC got his?" After you leave the ! front you don't meet any of the old gang except by accident. They only | ship the dangerously wounded or
 those with d missing limb to Eighty (England). So everyone wishes that good one so as "to make Blighty." They have all the convalcscent camps
 down at the seaside and let me tell you they Ghe wounded) do fine down there | think there are about ten girls
 to one man over in England and the Canucks are just like a chicken and
 place of honor in the middle of the l flock. 1 think We were loaded about full with mine" pills, by the way they looked after us. They seem to be one of the indispensable things in the ar my and they give them out for every thing up to d broken leg. You tell what is the matter with you and they say: "one red. Next it is ''one black
 and so on. The reds are siXes and the
 blacks are mines" When I finally Leat out the training game and got shipped to France. I had my first eX- perience with the French trains. | Say: the old kougaroll road was an express in comparison to the French
 trains. Landed at the Canadian basel
 one of tho biggest bases in France. the Hiney's would come over and put Us in
 dugouts just to be playful, with d few
 of their bombing planes. lneideY tally
 ho would drop 3 few (bombs) OF the
 hospitals By the way. l believe II
 forgot to tell you that won couple
 of medals--pnce more upholding the reputation of the Sour Coughs. ;'his vas in close quarters enga cement. Four fights for each medal awarded. They are for boxing. however. This was after the big push and they were two round bouts. l heard the Sgt, Major say: There is a boy that is as clumsy as cow. He said to mo: "Now don't go in and try any science for you haven't any one Right" l heard
 one of the boys ably express my mode of fighting. He said You had your mind made up while the other fellow was getting il hunch." It was just
 slugging, that's all. Three out of the first bunch did not stay the limit.
 ] Well. we are back up in front again trying to fix the place up once more and also getting junk together again.
 We are picking up all the material in the different battle areas.
 Our gang volunteered to go and re- inter the Canadian graves They
 had the last push fighting over the same ground and you can guess how scme of them (the graves) were We expect twill be July before we get away from this country. They are only going to ship about thirty thou sand of us a month. I want to hear your version of the reported stampede to Siberia. l want to make a trip there if there is going to be anything I guess that is where Bob Adams went from Seaford. for did not see him az ain. One of the old gang from Nome just quit and went to IHavre. You remember Red Bayne. That's the chap The favorite pasttme with us fellows at present is Reading shirts. It's great game. It is night time just now and most of the gang are as- saying their undershirts. I just heard one fellow gay, with q note of pride: Twenty Six" so you see we have lots of company. don't think I shall even want to see a mattress ag- ain. I am 70 used to picking out q soft spct on the ground with a couple of crummy blankets for cover. As