Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-02

throw the i,rutches away and start for
my outfit in a few days.
| am feeling fine but am afraid that |
the loss of my finger Will spoil my |
writing and that J. never Will be able'
to spell any more. For the first two |
weeks that ! WAS here al / did was |
sleep. That is why 1 did not write !!
oftener / did not know that I was
SO tired until / got to q, place where |
I could sleep. I would only wake UP
! to eat and to get my wounds dress
cd | am all caught up now and take
a walk around the city every day.
So long.
| MIKE.
| Paris, Dec, 8, 1918.
| Dear P. FL received a letter from
| you this morning. dated Oct. Both
/ There is not much to tell you that yoC
| do not already kasW My wounds are
! al healed and today I am out with
| out a bandage on my hand ii another
| week shall not assd ono on my Lee.
This is sure spne city, You woulG
I not call it a rest camp however. The
have about all the sandbags taken
i-dcWn from the statues and works OF
| art now so that one can get a good
| look at things. They certainly did
have a lot of them on top of Nape-
| leon-he had dandy dugout. Any
one who has been up at the front
knows why he is always pictured
with his hand inside his SKIRT.
You were asking about the "Y' and
| the other organizations Did the "1-''
always charge US fer stuff? No. We
never had to pay for the writing pa
per we got from them. I don't know
rnuch about the K. of c., as I only
saw them ones. but understand that
they did not charge for the stuff they.
I'M "a otl3ar olItfits
The Red Cross was there with both
feet, and whether it was undershirts,
chocolate or bandages. you did not
| have to feel like q beggar when you
| got it. They did not pull any brass
band stuff either.
The Salvation Army girls got as
near the lines as a girl could &c. We
! did not see any in any OF the big
| cities or regular rest camps, but when
! we used to come out Of the first line
for q rest back Of the third line, no
, | matter what time of night or morn
| ing we dragged in, we could so over
and get q, couple Of doughnuts and
| d cup of chocolate, and if a fellow did
not have the price he could forget il
and have another cup if he wanted it.
In the old days of the trench game
the last thing We would pass going in
| would be one of those girls STANDING
| !
| helmet, and with her respirator at
alert" passing cut doughnuts as "a 81
ls she could pick them out of heI
basket. When a raid was to be pulled
t Of they always made il a point tC
? meet the trucks of the raiding bat
TALON, and the last thing many q boz
. | ate was d dougfnut
t Well ] don't know when shall gel
Z home. Was to go with q bunch tina
| T., T.
Q ing, but ut the last minute | got per
| mission TO rejoin my outfit, which
8 had heard was going to Germany. As
s | forwards an order come through Il
send none of the wounded to duty.
g Twice since my name went on thu
: | "biighty" roster, but ONCE I chan%et
: the card on my cot. and the c:the
= time ! just happened tn be out Hhe,
= they went. I would sure like TO g
! back TO the company, but the III
: spectirg officer told me yesterday tina
. tfeFg was no chance. as Il missin:
: trigger finger means disability dis
y charge.
e The joke of it is that never use
;. | that finger on my gat at all eEcer
) 1T firing exercise When I had
:, real target TO shoot at I always use
" my middle finger
pou't think that am not anxiau
: to get home; / am, but | would Xix
e te make it with the outfit.
,, There is one thing / shall alway
% | regret. When I got ti1at waiIop .
u The jaw I wen1 out for 4 few second
:. and I slipped my pack and lost mo.
- of my souvenirs. 7 also left my gat :
9 the dressing station should III
/ to get back and see, If i; was turee
= in. After packing it al over tho Ii,
III for more than Il year I sure W2G-
like 10 take il home with ne.
J The weather is tine. We we're &C,
d tainly lucky to be over here aE-a
il from the flu. and the rotten weat,ls
re you had last year.
= So long,
to Nuke.
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