[Illustration: "I WEAR THEM EVERY NIGHT OVER MY UNIFORM"]

Its getting frappayer and frappayer down here (meaning colder and
colder). It got so cold that I put on those sox that you nitted me. I
guess I wont any more though. I guess my feet are going to look like
corderoy the rest of my life. Youll understand no hard feelin I know.
You know how delicate my feet is an how I cant afford to prennez a
hazard with them.

Thank your mother for the flannel pajammas. I wear them every night over
my uniform. I got to quit now an read some pictur post cards that some
girls sent me.

Good night
(or as the French say Robe de Nuit).



_Dere Mable:_

I havnt rote for some time because I been made an officer.--a corperal.
I admit I deserved it. I didnt apply for it or nothin though. They just
come and told me.

Bein corperal means I dont have nothin more to do with details. An at
the same time I got more details than ever. Thats a sort of a joke that
us military men understand. You couldnt get it probably Mable. Its
tecknickle.