a scare into somebody with a lot of junk about a big drive they are going
to make but I have seen birds come up to hit in baseball Al that was going
to drive it out of the park but their drive turned out to be a hump back
liner to the pitcher. I remember once when Speaker come up with a couple
men on and we was 2 runs ahead in the 9th. inning and he says to me "Well
busher here is where I hit one a mile." Well Al he hit one a mile all right
but it was 1/2 a mile up and the other 1/2 a mile down and that's the way
it goes with them gabby guys and its the same way with the Germans and they
talk all the time so as they will get thirsty and that's how they like to
be.

Speaking about thirsty Al its different over here then at home because when
a man in uniform wants a drink over here you don't half to hire no room in
a hotel and put on your nightgown but you can get it here in your uniform
only what they call beer here we would pore it on our wheat cakes at home
and they got 2 kinds of wine red and white that you could climb outside of
a bbl. of it without asking the head waiter to have them play the Rosery.
But they say the champagne is O. K. and I am going to tackle it when I get
a chance and you may think from that that I have got jack to throw away but
over here Al is where they make the champagne and you can get a qt. of it
for about a buck or 1/2 what you would pay for it in the U. S. and besides
that the money they got here is a frank instead of a dollar and a frank
isn't only worth about $.19 cents so a man can have a whole lot better time
here and not cost him near as much.

And another place where the people in France has got it on the Americans
and that is that when they write a letter here they don't half to pay
nothing to mail it but when you write to me you have got to stick a 5 cent
stamp on it but judgeing by the way you answer my letters the war will be
all over before you half to break a dime. Of course I am just jokeing Al