Well Al after they had gone Sebastian made the remark that I had a beautiful wife and I couldn’t help from feeling kind of sorry for him so I says “Never mind old boy” I said to him “as long as your Mrs. is a good mother and willing to work you should not worry if she is no Eva Tanguay.” But I didn’t feel so sorry for him when we opened up the boxs they had broughten us and Sebastian’s wife had give him doughnuts and a pie and part of a cake and goodys of all kinds and when I opened up my box it was a lb. of candy like you get in a union station for 60 cts and if it wasn’t for the picture of a girl on the cover it would be all profit and a man can’t eat the picture which was the only part of it that hadn’t ran together like chop sooy and Florrie would of made just as big a hit with me if she had of put in the time bakeing me a mess of cookys that she spent toneing up her ear lobs or something.
Well Al I suppose you read about yesterday’s game in Chi. I been saying right along that the White Sox was to lucky to loose and the only way I can figure out yesterday’s game is that they must be a rule in the National League where you can’t change from 1 pitcher to another pitcher till the other team gives their consent. From what I read in the papers Sallee could of been turned loose with his fast ball in a looking glass factory without damageing the goods and when Jackson and Collins begins to take a toe hold against a left hander its time to summons the Red X. You will notice Rowland didn’t waist no time getting Russell out of there and the next time he starts a left hander will be on the training trip next spring in Wichita where if you beat them to bad they won’t give you a card to the Elks.
Camp Grant, Oct. 16.
My Cher Ami: I suppose you will think I have gone crazy when you read the way I started this letter out and you will wonder if I have gone crazy. Well Al that is the French word for my dear friend in English so you see I have not gone crazy after all. I took my first lesson last night and it is going to be nuts to learn it because most of the words is just like English only spelled different and you don’t say them the same but the man learns us a dozen words and tells us how to say them and we keep saying them over till we get them down and it wont’ be long when we got enough of them learned so as we can jabber back and forth in front of the boys that didn’t have sense enough to learn it and they won’t know if we are calling them names or getting ready to murder them.
Well Al we had Gen. Barry out overlooking us yesterday and he said we was a fine looking bunch of soldiers as he even seen and we put in most of the day digging trenchs just like the ones they got over in Germany and when we get them fixed up we will practice fighting for them till we can go through them Dutchmen like they was fly paper and I wouldn’t be surprised Al if we got word soon to pack up and start because Red Sampson one of the boys in our Co. has got a brother thats over there all ready and he is Gen. Pershing’s right hand bower and so he gets the dope pretty straight and in a letter Red got from him he says Gen. Pershing had asked Secty. Daniels to send over the best looking lot of soldiers from each camp and from what Gen. Barry said about us I suppose we will be the first to go but it may not be for a wk. or so because Red said he heard we wasn’t going till each Co. had a rifle.
If we do have to go in a hurry I won’t be able to write you about where we are leaveing from and etc. on acct. of the censure because the German spy might get next to it and he could wire across to Germany and the submarine U boats would be on the outlook for us. But between you and I Red says we are libel not to go where the submarines can get a crack at us but we may slip around the other way and light in Japan and make the rest of the trip by R.R. and he says we may even not go to France but stay and help the Russians out. So Shorty Lahey was there and he has always got to say something so people will think he knows it all so he said the Russians didn’t need nobody to help them out because they were pretty near out now. So Red said “You will notice they didn’t loose much ground yesterday” and Shorty says “No they only loose 2 miles and they must of been a strong east wind blowing but I will bet you that if we do make the trip that way we will bump into them along about Ogden Utah.” So Red says “No because if they ever get to Utah they will hide in Salt Lake City where the Germans couldn’t tell them by their beards.” So then Shorty seen he was getting kidded and shut up.
This a.m. we spent a half hour listening to a speech about the German gas and of course you have read about the gas
