and I know why you don't write much because you haven't got nothing to
write staying there in Bedford and you could take a post card and tell me
all the news that happened in 10 yrs. and still have room enough yet to say
Bertha sends kind regards.

But of course its different with a man like I because I am always where
they is something big going on and first it was baseball and now its a
bigger game yet you might say but whatever is going on big you can always
count on me being in the mist of it and not buried alive in no Indiana X
roads where they still think the first bounce is out. But of course I know
it is not your fault that you haven't been around and seen more and it
ain't every man that can get away from a small town and make a name for
themself and I suppose I ought to consider myself lucky.

Well Al enough for this time and I will write soon again and I would like
to hear from you even if you haven't nothing to say and don't forget to
send me a Chi paper when you get a hold of one and I asked Florrie to send
me one every day but asking her for favors is like rolling off a duck's
back you might say and its first in one ear and then the other.

Your pal, JACK.

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_Somewheres in France, Feb. 7._

FRIEND AL: I suppose you have read articles in the papers about the war
that's wrote over here by reporters and the way they do it is they find out
something and then write it up and send it by cablegrams to their papers
and then they print it and that's what you read in the papers.