News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05

! sometnlng. UI course L uonu mean
didn't pay any attention to the differ
ent things you said, because I always
did, and / used to worry over 1t be
cause | was afraid some day it woult
get you into trouble, and I'm mighty
J glad you've cut it out. That's right
r., you be regular girl now. You always
were one, and | knew that all right
I'm not as scared to write to you as
was to talk to you, so guess you know
l was mighty tickled to get your letter
I 1t sounded blue, but / was glad to get
| it. You bet I'll write to you l don't
suppose you could have any idea how
| glad l was to get your letter. could
| sit here and write to you all day If
they'd let me, but I'm corporal now
| When you answer this, / wish you'd
say how the old town looks and if the
| grass in the front yards is as green as
it usually is, and everything. And tell
me some more about everything you
think of when you are working down
at the Red Cross like you said guess
I've read your letter five million times,
and that part ten million. | mean
where you underlined that you and
what you said to yourself at the Red
Cross. Oh murder, but was glad to
read that Don't forget about writing
anything else you think of like that.
"Well, | was interrupted then and
this is the next day. OF course l can't
tell you where we are. because that
darned censor will read this letter, but
] guess he will let this much by. Who
do you think / ran across in a VILLAGE
yesterday! Two boys from the ola
school days, and we certainly did
shake hands a few times It was that
old foolish Dutch Krusemeyer and AL
bert Paxton, both of them lieutenants.
/ heard Fred Mitchell is still training
in the States and about crazy because
they won't send him over yet
IF you have any idea how glad
was to get your letter, you wouldn't
lose any time answering this one. Any
how, I'm going to write to you again
every few days if get the chance, be-
cause maybe you'll answer more than
one ofIem.
But see here, cut out that sent you
to be killed stuff. You've got the
wrong idea altogether. We've got the
big job of our lives. we know that, but
we're going to do it. Therell be mis-
takes and bad times, but we won't fall
down. Now, you'll excuse me for say
ing it this way, Dora, but don't know
just how to express myself except
saying of course we know everybody
isn't going to get back home-but lis.
ten, we didn't come over here to get
killed particularly, we came over to
give these Dutchmen HI!
perhaps you can excuse language If
| write 1t with blank like that, but
before we get back we're going to do
what we came for. They may not all
Of them be as bad as some of them
It's a good thing you don't know what
we do, because some of it would make
you sick. AS say, there may be quite
lot of good ones among them; but
we know what they've done to this
country, and we know what they mean
to do to ours. So we're going to at
tend to them. OF course that's why
I'm here 1t wasn't you.
Don't forget to write pretty soon,
Dora. You say in your letter. GER
tainly was glad to get that letter.
well, you say have things to do more
important than girls Dora, / think
you probably know without my saying
so that of course while l have got i'm
portant things to do, just as every
man over here has, and everybody at
home, for that matter, well, the thing
that is most important in the world to
me, next to helping win this war, it's
reading the next letter from you.
Don't forget how glad I'll be to get
it, and don't forget you didn't have
anything to do with my being over
here. That vast was something
else. And you bet, whatever happens
I'm glad l came! Don't ever forget
that"
Dora knew it was something else"
Her memory went back to her first rec
of him In school: from that
time on he had been just an ordinary,
everyday boy, floundering somehow
through his lessons in school and
through his sweethearting with Milla,
as the millions of other boys floun-
dered along with their own lessons
and their own Millas. She saw him
swinging his books and romping home
ward from the schoolhouse, or going
by her fathers front yard, |
rafting a stick on the fence as he !
went, care-free and masterful, but shy
as a deer if strangers looked at him,
and always mot much of a talker"
She had always felt so superior to
him; she shuddered as she thought of
1t. His quiet had been so much better |
than her talk. His intelligence was
proven now, when it came to the great
test, to be of a stronger sort than hers.
He was wise and good and gentle
and a fighting man 1--WE know what