and I hope I will get a chance in the near future to have a little chat
with you.

I note what you say about our name being both Jack and I was thinking to
myself that lots of times in a poker game a pair of jacks is enough to win
and maybe it will be the same way in the war game and any way I guess the
2 of us could put up a good bluff and bet them just as if we had them. Eh
gen?

Respy, JACK KEEFE.

That's what I wrote to him Al and he will get it some time tomorrow or the
next day and I should ought to hear from him back right away and I hope
he will take my hint and leave me stay here with my regt. where I can see
some real action. But if he summonses me I will go Al and not whine about
getting a raw deal.

Well I happened to drop into a estaminet here yesterday and that's kind of
a store where a man can buy stuff to take along with him or you can get a
cup of coffee or pretty near anything and they was a girl on the job in
there and she smiled when I come in and I smiled at her back and she seen
I was American so she begin talking to me in English only she has got some
brogue and its hard to make it out what she is trying to get at. Well we
talked a wile and all of a sudden the idear come to me that I and her could
hit it off and both do the other some good by her learning me French and
I could learn her English and so I sprung it on her and she was tickled
to death and we called it a bargain and tomorrow we are going to have our
first lessons and how is that Al for a bargain when I can pick up French
without it costing me a nickle and of course they won't be only time for I
or 2 lessons before I hear from Black Jack but I can learn a whole lot in