them but of course they have observers that can see when you are going to
get ready to pull something. But it looks to me like the observers wouldn't
be worth a hoop and he--ll if the other gen. made his preparations at night
when it was dark like bringing up the troops and artilery and supplys and
etc. and in that way you could take them by supprise and make them look
like a fool, like in baseball I have often crossed the batter up and one
day I had Cobb 3 and 2 and he was all set to murder a fast one and I dinked
a slow one up there to him and the lucky stiff hit it on the end of his bat
just inside third base and 2 men scored on it.

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That's about the idears I am going to give him Al only of course I can talk
it off better then I can write it because wile I am talking I can think up
a lot more incidents to tell him and him being a baseball fan he will set
there pop eyed with his mouth open as long as I want to talk. But now I
can't hardly wait for him to get here Al and it seems funny to think that
here I am a $30 dollar a mo. doughboy and maybe in a few days I will be on
the staff and they don't have nobody only officers and even a lieut. gets 5
or 6 times as much as a doughboy and how is that for a fine nickname Al for
men that all the dough they are getting is a $1 per day and the pollutes
only gets 2 Sues a day and that's about 2 cents so I suppose we ought to
call them the Wall St. crowd.

Well Al you should ought to be thankfull you are there at home with your
wife where you can watch her and keep your eyes on her and find out what
she is doing with her spare time though I guess at that they wouldn't be
much danger of old Bertha running a muck and I don't suppose she would half
to wear bob wire entanglements to keep Jack the Kisser away but when a man
has got a wife like Florrie and here I am over here and there she is over