Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-22
ASSOCIATE AND CONTRIBUTING
EDITORS
De vULLUP BAIT.
GROUP CASUAL co.
1ST PROVISION CO.

Dear Paw
70 asst me in your recent about peter
Townclock from the Corners and that he's
been rit In home. that I'm Ia his Conn
pany and that he has been MADE into
SurEeant and that he has been good
70 me and trying 10 keep me straight. Say
FaW that Geezer is so crooked that hn
cant lay straight in his cot and the only
company he keeps the lest said about ii
the Better down here as we're not even
allowed to talk with them and If helm
from him was eyesght id been stone
blind along ago. We hay seven mule on
the coral that we call friendly they're tho
ones that rech out and shak hands with
you when they see yo passin Wen clean
them mules is supposed TO be as safe q
Job as curryin loaded German and them
Jobs IS kept for the rough neeks htuts
not tit to associate with General Pris-
gner was takin ride ON the Honey
wagon last week an see Pete maxim
passes at one OF them Friends with
nfnsh fastened 70 q rake-handie and {
says; Pete, Join the army and learn
3 trade, and he Amt spoke to me since
50 tell his folks that he is MS busy as ever
and Iookin for his release every day
Them cigaEAttes and candy va sent
me got jasnmed together | guess VA didn't
Baeh them very well so now / know
whether i'm eatin cigarettes or smokin
Tns next ones yu send make II hard
Maple Sugar and Bull Durham IT don't
make any difference how much you throw
ne sun tbid yu.. get that Tin gettin
4
around il don't get hurt any.
Vas down to sc that Jane I spoke
about last week and the house wag heat
81 southern style, but this time was
ready for i and hod my Rod Cross
sweaters and oYercoat on and kept them
on by what We soldiers call rugs /
l9d1 the folks that whom i WIS doin my
WNsnin that mornin my shirts froz an
nad leilxies hangin to them SO they ex-
8vorcost ''
The jane had one of them eight-seein
waists on and war skirt and the first
lrling shs done was to begin to apologize
tof this iugubrious climate "Wentt saws
vermont gets up on her hind legs
Apout the middle Of Sept and hollers and
we begin TO get up our wood pile In
January we hav what we calls thaw "a
IoDt OF snow and blow and about
the Iat of June We begin to 500 hare
ground again we never boast aho,,t ~.
titifna1 put believe 10 ito ME, we never hav
70 spoio@lz for II. says "Whv don't
" nrag scout something WI reilly hay
here, the hook-work for instinct .
At dinner her old man treated mo fe
wtse ffat he said was over 40 years old
fte served 1t IN Il dinlsy little glass that
aeia syei teaspoonfuL Iie says How
~ VII Like that, Joe?" and I Says pine
but IT'S awful small for its age
IhsY begun to tell ma about an the
aopacso grandfather grew and didn't
want EN- TO lay over me too mich so
nays: My grandpa grew tobacco toe buf
the worst of il was he smoked all ha crew
himself and i've beer trying to forgot il
ever sine.
applssd for my immediate dlseharEe
on defendant relatives gpui support ana If
ssls& Red tFsgss ahegh call arid ask ~
about IL doi1t forget to ten them a1soaf
that dollar give gu the Xmas 4Efore
last | asst the X O. about II yesterday
and he says; Joe, of course VII know
rs got to go Through military chan
nels says: Gap yu said soulethin
but W don't suppose there's Ice III them
channels this last cold speu and navlra-
ton Is closed. mebbe, been loltin Cor
that discharE now sine the day after
the armistfRs "
Up yur way perhaps va heard the wor
Is over ! Thought so until last night
when passed a seckond loot without
saluting. Yu can get by the majors and
kernels o, X Their arms is sore any
way but them shave-tails sure do spend
their days polishing up their little brass
Pat PAT and their nights under the electric
lights watchin for us, DO we like them9
YES, they're as poplar round here as
tnMnderstorm at lawn party
SO wlshin w the same
your respectable,
JOE BFRNOR.