Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-01-03
Copyright. 1917, by The Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)

sitting on the straw in the corner OF
our billet, far from the rest of the Sec
ton. The previous night we had been
relieved from the fire trench, and were
resting in rest billets. Our days
rest" had been occupied In digging a
bombing trench. this trench to be used
for the purpose of breaking in would
be bombers.
Hungry Foxcroft was slicing away
at a huge loaf of bread, while on his
knee he was balancing a piece of SIS
sue" cheese. His jack-knife was pretty
dull and the bread was hard. so every
now and then he would pause in his
cutting operation to take large bite
from the cheese.
Curly Wallace whispered to me:
"Three bob to a tanner, Yank, that he
eats the cheese before he finishes sic
ing that 'rooty.'"
1 whispered back:
Nothing doing, Curly, you are
Scotch, and did you ever see a Scots
man bet on anything unless it was a
sure winner?"
He answered in an undertone:
swell, let's make it a pack of flags.
How about it, Yank?"
l acquiesced. (Curly won the fags.)
Sailor Bill was sitting next to Curly,
and had our mascot, Jim-a sOrry-lOok-
ing mut-between his knees, and was
picking hard pieces of mud from its
paws. Jim was wagging his stump OF
a tail and was intently watching Hun
gry's operation on the bread. Every
time Hungry reached for the cheese
Jim would follow the movement with
his eyes, and his tail would wag faster
Hungry, noting this look, bit Off a
small piece of the cheese and tipped
It In Jim's direction. Jim deftly caught
IT in his mouth and then the fun be-
gan. Our mascot hated cheese. II was
fun to see him spit 1t out and sneeze.
key Honey reached over. took the
candle, and started searching in his
pack. amidst a chorus Of grOwls from
us at his rudeness IN thus depriying us
of light. / was watching him closely
and suspected what was coming. Sure
enough, out came that harmonica and
I knew IL was up 10 me 10 start the
bail Of conversation rolling before he
began playing, because, after he had
once started, nothing short OF a Ger
man "hye-nlne' shellburst would stop
him. So / slyly kicked Sailor Bill, who
Immediately got wise, and then
broke the ice with;
"sailOr, ! heard you say this after
noon, while we were building that
traverse, that Il WAS your opinion that
darn few medals were really won that
II WAS more or less an accident Now,
just because your -. q, ~. came 40
Win fbe rafi0ns, and, as you shy. u /
was wished On y0u, there "a no reason /
10 ny mind 70 class every winner 81 /
a medal as being accidentally lucky" /
This medal business WIS q sore point
win Sailor hili, 6Bq BE- came night
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Corporal French ~ The same bloke /.
Mo lasl returned from Highly nn1 y
'blhe1 ne Third section yesterday" 7
Authors Hoie Ths Incident here ~.
stei -. nepwH,a..F ootr.tl "
ifNf fNsd ~ iirnney I vii not attempt NJ
n size d ~ the rofknsy diaiectl
I'VE were holding part Of the line y
~ Ffomelies AZ. aLd we're stout y
80 hundred Yards 'om the Gesmana "
mia sure wins a mt section ~ the o.
Inc. We were nenlnst the Russians.
In1 Il was a case. M night. Of keeping ol
Oifi ears aud eyes open. No Mans "