The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-05-08

OF q cripple. But'it ID the usual th1n8
with the French. as you know-I mean
the kissing. not the meanness to
cripples.
When he had pinned the medal ON
he said he thanked me from the bot
tom Of his heart for the French people.
and also thanked all the Americans
who had come over from their own
land to help q country with which
most Of them were not connected. He
said 1t was q war iu which many na-
lions were taking part but In which
there were Just two ideas, freedom
and despotism, and lot more things
that cannot remember. He finished
BY saying that he wished he could dec.
crate all Of n.
OF course 1t was great stun for me
and I thought was the real thing
sure enough, but could not help
thinking Of the remark have heard
here in the States-"I thank you and
the whole family thanks you" And 1t
was hard not to laugh. Also 1t seemed
funny to me. because did not rightly
know Just what they were giving me
the medal for-though 1t was for one
Of two things-and do not know to
this day. But thought 1t would not
be polite TO ask, 80 let It 20 at that.
There were twelve other naval ON
GERS who were present and they and
all the other people did q lot Of cheer.
ing and vived me to a fare-you-well.
It was great stun, altogether. and I
should have liked to get q medal every
day.
One day received letter from .
man who had been In my company In
the Foreign Legion and with whom !
had been pretty chummy. his letter
was partly in French and partly In
Engliah. II was all about who had
been killed and who had been wound
ed. he also mentioned Murray's
death. which he had heard about, and
about my receiving the Croix dc
Guerre. I was Wishing he had said
something about Brown, whom had
not heard from and who knew would
visit me II he had the chance.
But two or three days later got
another letter from the same man and
when opened 1t out tumbled q photo
graph. At FIRST all saw was that IL
was the photograph Of . man crucified
with bayonets. but when looked at
It closely I saw It was Brown. I
tainted then, just like . girl.
When came to I could hardly make
myself think about It. Two Of my
pals gonei It hurt me DO much to
think Of It that I crushed the lettee
up In my hand. but later on could
read parts Of it. It said they had
found Brown this way near Dixmude
about two days after he had been re-
ported missing. So three Of US went
over and two stayed there. It seems
very strange to me that both Of my
pals should be crucined and II were
supersttous I do not know what
would think about 1t. 1t made mo
sick and kept me from recovering -
fast a. I would have done otherwise.
Both Brown and Murray were good
pals and very good men in q Tight
often think Of them both and about
the things we did together. but lately
have tried not to think about them
much because 1t II very sad to think
what torture they must have had to
stand. They were both Of great credit
to this country.
The American consul visited me
quite often and got to calling him
Sherlock because he asked 10 many
question: We played lots Of games
together. mostly with dice. and had .
great time generally. After became
convalescent he argued with me that
1 had seen enough, and though really
did think so-however much I disliked
what had seen-he got my discharge
from the service on account Of phys
ical inability to discharge the usual
duties. After I had been at the hos
pital for a little over q month I was
discharged from It. after q little party
in my ward with everyone taking part
and all the horns blowing and all the
records except my favorite dirge
played one after another.
Sherlock arranged everything for
me-my passage to New York. cloth
ing, etc. I ran up to st. Nazaire and
saw my grandmother, loafed around
a while and also visited Lyons.
After a short time returned to
Brest and got my passage ON the
Georgia for New York. had three
trunks with me full Of things I had
picked up around Europe and had
been keeping with my grandmother.
Among my belongings were several
things I should like to show by pho
tographs In this book. but no one but
mermaids can see them now. for down
to the locker Of Davy Jones they went
CTO Be CONTINUED.)
ohrlnes TO Foxes.
There are numberless shrines IN
Japan dedicated to foxes. The badger
II another animal feared BY the super.