the Docs usually gets. If you're laying at death's door they generally
pull you thru. The Doc said "operation at once" but havin read Irve
Cobb's book about Operations I passed the buck to Skinny and we
both got better simultaneously to once. I don't jest "make" this
appendicitis but I have a suspicion that's its a disease that costs
about $500.00 more than the stummick ache; anyhow its sumpin you have
just before your Doc buys a new automobile. All the samee, we're off
pigs feet fur life.

Yrs in Health

BARNEY.

P.S.--I left my other shirt at the "chinks" to be laundered. Don't let
him sell it for charges before I get back.




Dere Julie,

At last I am a officer; and it happened like this. To make my old
lady feel good, and knowin she didn't know much of the "parley-voo"
spoke in the army, I rote her that I had been made a Captain in the
Latrines; this A.M. i gets a "billy-doo" from her asking me, now that
I had got to be a high up officer, not to be too hard on the boys
under me, and to always remember that I was once a buck private in the
rear ranks. I hope the old lady don't think to look the word up in the
dictionary, or she might, as Laura Blue Jeans Libby says "be rudely
awakened." Eh What?