Letter to Mother from Somewhere in France

3 P.M.
#782373
S.W. in F.
17-10-17

Dear Mother:–  

I am sitting on an old log beside a farm barn just came off parade at 2,30 just an hour in P.M. I received a package of candy and crumb chaser last night the fudge was surely fine, I am eating pears two little girls carried a big basket into the yard for sale four for 10¢ they are a little green yet but we have been eating them for two months so you may know how green the first were that we ate,

There is quite a bunch of pigs running around this farm, white with ears very nearly down to there noses.

I get up each a,m, about 5,30 go out to the creek wash and shave then shine colar and cap badges and clean my rifle shine my shoes, the brass on equipment needs a shine about every second or third day when out of the line, never in the line I got pear all over the paper as you will see,

I wonder if Teddy will be called, if he is I hope he will go into some thing else beside the infantry, I would not say any thing about which he should choose, I would take the money again as much as I dislike water, you have no funk holes to live in in the winter. The main thing is to live out and out the christian life and it little matters where you are There is sprinkles of rain dropping on this sheet now, I will write less and less letters as the days get shorter but will know I am just like a bear crawling in to winter quarters next spring when the days get long I will if living write you long letters as often as ever, I must devote so much time to the reading of Gods word each day for I surely find I need it always.

I must guard against hard feelings and strife among the boys it is only the christian spirit that builds this up in one each day.

bye bye Mother dear as ever your loving son Laurie