Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-29
DeOeltup Battalion
Casualty Co., Ist Group


Derc Paw. Their was a boob come into
| the co. street to-day askin for the
shortest cut TO the Rase ITosnifa1 and
Red Nancy told him to go over to Serct.
Quinn's tent and boiler "3 cheers for the
KAISER and he'd fluid himself In the
Base inside OF minutes told va that
story in another letter in another way
! but it's such a good one that / thought
yu'd like to hear 1t again
It sure has been some wet to-day and
I've been offai busy The cook sent me
over to the fnfirmity to get a bottle Of
Snakes Foot Oil for hts rumatism an tho
Doc he says Tell the cook that onti1
he sends back that ball OF Grin limo I
lent him last week. he'll have TO GET
along without that Aumatism Liney-
ment" I've bsen all over Camp IoolJfn'
for that firiu-hne but every one saws he
lent It to some one else and tho last fello
said il was in the Generals roll TOP desk
but that's one place / couldn't get into
although IT amt because ] didn't try. So
here / am wet and sore and If tbe cool,
had the st. Nltus's dance with his in
flamatoly rumatism with the nalarv
chills thrown in for good measure. Pd
let him jump shake and suffer for ain ~
me
been takin Euuatoratiou lately. Thafa
the sintific way TO ride a borre hut nv
the way the back OF my neck feels liJ5e
the old way best Yu know when / used
to ride old Bess down 10 the Corners
d
around her middle and my hands in her
man an let her flicker The instructor
SAYS va must mount by standin at at
. lehtion with the bridegroom in one hand
Word OIL command grasp the candle Of the
sadie with one hand and the pummel
with another then crack yur heels to-
getner ana spring lightly into the sad
de This sounds easy to him and by
me way he spoke you'd think ! had as
many hands as a spider or deyll-fish.
dldh need 10 crack my heels together
me morse 81 that for me and as for litiu
IN the saddlet The best / ever did was
three out NY s, I didn't exactly fall hut
the horse had gone on before I got around
10 come down Hence the sore neck as
SPOKE m my previous. Finally l begun
champasner helped lie begun to bunch
up nus back to meet me half way but the
trouble was he overdid IT, I never sposcd
mere was so many places on a horse to
horse got tired Of it first at that as he
passed on after the steenth bounce and !
~ on my own back for change. The
Loot comp!meuted me when | recovered
unconsciousness. lie says Joe, II yu
Keep that up Nu OF to get cornish in
the Rough Riders. says Loot VI
showed me now To mount, ROW tell me
now TO dismount. "Yu don't need any
destruction on that, joe he says. 'Yu
DO that natural
Well to make a short story long MS the
reno Iio says uIed 10 strange that horse
!,ulh Nun INC Wa3 rode old Eess, but
he buc5ed until he cot one ar his hoofe
CAUGHT in the STRIP always was a
good checker player AMI | see at once il
was my move, why didn't yu walt
Tor the order OF dismount2' he says
We'll Loot, when | see that horse try
in to get on says l, Il thought it was
time for me to get off"
horse. The boys seemed to think that
the previous one didn't fit me We hay
a canvas covered horse stuffed with
straw mot a live one) down at the coral,
that the greenhorns practice putin packs