Wednesday, May 29, 2019

R'ham Lad Writes Humorous Letter From France, May 29, 1919

From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Thursday, May 29, 1919

Letter Home From France

Aigny le Duc, France
April 15, 1919
Dear:

Well, old scout, it seems that just about every member of the old gang will beat me home. But listen: don’t let any of those hot house boys getaway with any hero stuff. Why, pal-o-mine, I’ve been “over the top” more times than those birds have ever been home, and I will look no less important than John L. McIver when I blow in wearing one of those Croix de Guerres and other badges received for “gallantry in action.” Boy, I am there—far be it from me to kid you.

So you asked me when you passed through Liverpool, did you? And no one knew me? Evidently you didn’t ask my friend Lloyd George. Boy, I had some time in Paris. Had to wear an assumed name to keep from being jerked up by the Peace Conference. Pres. Wilson and I hit Paris the same day, and it was quite a celebration they put on for us. However, I couldn’t find a single Frenchman who was patriotic enough to let me hold a hundred francs!

So Corbet is in the electrical business. Getting ready for the “chair,” I guess. May a live wire do its duty.

At $150 a month I admit that you are letting your company get away with an enormous bargain. Candidly, I think the bird that hired your ought to e examined by a Psychiatrist. (Oh, no; that is not the name of a French M.P. He is merely the guy that works in cooperatin with the squirrels—namely, goes after the ‘nuts.’

Well, son, I have told you all there is to tell—and it’ll not make you any wiser. Have no idea when we’ll get home, but you can count on our making up for lost time when we do come.

France is a wet country.

Yours,
R’ham lad in France


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