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Treat 'em Rough - Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer by Ring Lardner
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their shoulders that lots of men would rather be a private. So I said it
must be a fine kind of a man that would turn down a job in the army
because it was a tough job and Red says "Yes but everybody ain't like
you and some men don't want no responsibility but you are one of the
kind that the more they have the better they like it and everybody could
see you was a born leader the way you acted in that trench drill today."

So I suppose after all a man like Chambers has no business in a job like
corporal because it is a cinch nobody would ever call him a born leader
unless it was in the gin league but still a person would think he would
try and behave himself after the captain give him that chance but still
I should not worry and it is none of my business and all I got to do is
set up the right kind of an example for my own command and leave the
rest of them take care of themselfs.

Your pal, JACK.




CAMP GRANT, Oct. 23.

_FRIEND AL:_ Well I have quit takeing French class lessons and I quit
because I felt it wasn't fair to either myself or Capt. Nash because
when a man is a corporal its all head work you might say and a man ought
to keep their mind on their job evenings as well as day times and I felt
like I couldn't do that and be monking with French at the same time and
it would be like as if I was back pitching baseball and trying to learn
to play a saxophone or something at the same time and in the evenings
when I ought to be figureing out how to pitch to Pipp instead of that I
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