Seriously Al sometimes you see 4 or 5 French officers comeing along and
they haven't one of them got the same color uniform on but they are all
dressed up like a Roman candle you might say and if their uniforms run when
they got wet a man could let them drip into a pail and drink it up for a
pussy cafe.

Well Al the boys in our regt. is going to get out a newspaper and get it
out themself and it will be just the news about our regt. and a few gags
and comical storys about the different boys and they are going to get it
out once per wk.

Corp. Pierson from our Co. that use to work on a newspaper somewheres is
going to be the editor and he wants I should write them up something about
baseball and how to pitch and etc. but I don't believe in a man waisting
their time on a childs play like writeing up articles for a newspaper but
just to stall him I said I would try and think up something and give it to
him when I had it wrote up. Well him waiting for my article will be like
me waiting for mail because I don't want nobody to take me for a newspaper
man because I seen enough of them in baseball and one time we was playing
in Phila. and I had them shut out up to the 8th inning and all of a sudden
Weaver and Collins got a stroke of paralysis and tipped their caps to a
couple ground balls that grazed their shoe laces and then Rube Oldring
hit one on a line right at Gandil and he tried to catch it on the bounce
off his lap and Bill Dinneen's right arm was lame and he begin calling
everything a ball and first thing you know they beat us 9 to 2 or something
and Robbins one of the Chi paper reporters that traveled with us wired a
telegram home to his paper that Phila. was supposed to be a town where a
man could get plenty of sleep but I looked like I had set up all the nights
we was there and of course Florrie seen it in the paper and got delirious
and I would of busted Robbins in the jaw only I wasn't sure if he realy