Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . the trenches. They are allnice to us, and it would make an Americanproud if he could see how the American 22 AMERICAN AMBULANCE boys here are respected and loved. Oneofficer was very indignant because thosedirty Boches had actually thrown fiveshells into his trench yesterday! As hewandered off muttering, J will showthem! les cochons — les cochons — co-chons, rather sleepily, I thought — Icould nt help remembering the Dormousein Alice in Wonderland. It appearedthat at the particular line of trencheswhere he was they had agreed only to fireat ea
Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . the trenches. They are allnice to us, and it would make an Americanproud if he could see how the American 22 AMERICAN AMBULANCE boys here are respected and loved. Oneofficer was very indignant because thosedirty Boches had actually thrown fiveshells into his trench yesterday! As hewandered off muttering, J will showthem! les cochons — les cochons — co-chons, rather sleepily, I thought — Icould nt help remembering the Dormousein Alice in Wonderland. It appearedthat at the particular line of trencheswhere he was they had agreed only to fireat each other with rifles! In several placeshere the trenches are only fifteen or twentymetres apart and the French and Ger-mans are on quite good terms. They ex-change tobacco for wine and paper forcigarettes and then return and shoot ateach other quite merrily. About Christ-mas or February, I am told, by soldierswho were then here, they used to walkinto each others trenches and exchangestories, etc., but now they have becomemechant. DIEULOUARD. FISHING WITHIN RIFLE-RANGEOF THE BOCHES FIELD SERVICE 23 I am feeling pretty sick to-day andrather dread to-night, as I have all-night duty at X . I am not at all well. It is the hard food we are having, I sup-pose. Anyhow, I find myself nice andthin again, so your shocking example ofgaining weight last spring is now of noinfluence. Doc comes to-morrow andI will give him this letter to post, as itwould never get through unless posted inParis. I have just returned from Belle-ville where I took three couches and twoassis. One of the couches was raving andhe yelled and shrieked the whole seven-teen kilometres. It was horrible. When Iarrived at Belleville, where they are puton a train and sent to a Base Hospital, Ifound that in his agony he had torn off hisclothes and broken the hangers of thestretcher, so it was a wonder he did notcompletely fall on the two men cars are packed like this — 24 AMERICAN AMBULANCE
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