Well I will be ready for him when he comes and I will be ready to pack up
and blow out of here at a minute's notice and I can't help from wondring
what some of these smart alex officers will say when they see what's
comeing off. So this won't be only a short letter Al because I have got a
lot to do to get ready and what I am going to do is write down some of my
idears so as I can read them off to him when he comes and if I didn't have
them wrote down I might maybe get nervous when I seen him and maybe forget
what I got to say because the boys says he's a tough bird for a man to see
for the first time till you get to know him and he acts like he was going
to eat you alive but he's a whole lot like a dog when you get to know him
and his bark is worse then a bite.

Well Al how is that for news and I guess you will be prouder then ever of
your old pal before this business gets over with and I would feel pretty
good with everything breaking so good only I am getting worred about
Ernestine that little French gal in the estaminet and I wished now I hadn't
never seen her or made no bargain with her and I didn't do it so much for
what I could learn off of her but these French gals Al has had a tough time
of it and if a man can bring a little sunshine into their life he wouldn't
be a man unless he done it. So I was just trying to be a good fellow and
here is what I get for it because I caught her today Al with that look in
her eye that I seen in so many of them and I know what it means and I guess
about the best thing for me to do is run away from Gen. Pershing and go
over the top or something and leave the boshs shoot my nose off or mess me
up some way and then maybe I won't get pestered to death every time I try
and be kind to some little gal.

I guess the French lessons will half to be cut out because it wouldn't be
square to leave her see me again and it would be different if I could tell