Letter to Mother from Somewhere in France

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Somewhere France
12-5-18

Dear Mother:– 

Seeing that this is Mothers' Day it is dubly my duty to write to you today.

I am sitting in the woods where I was last night when I wrote to Horace. I have been looking at your picture and thinking away back not only months but years, to our home at different times but my mother has ever grown dearer to me each year as I have become older and realized what my mother had done and was willing to do for me, I wonder if I will be spared to further prove my love and appreciation to you for your tender care and ever willing sacrifice for me. Your ever true and strong christian guidance.

I am trying to live so as to prove my self a worthy son, but I have often felt that people knowing and sizing me up and then thinking of what kind of a mother I have, there conseption would fall away short of my mother to what it would if they could know you in reality.

Well Mother no one knows it may not be long until you boy is back any way with out a pang, I can say "God's will be done",

I had a wrestle this A.M. and a roll around an old french street as we were going in to bath, standing in the parade, or line

We have all kinds of fun any thing that turns up no one are at outs more than ten minuites at a time.

Well Mother it is to cold out here tonight we have a chilly breeze blowing so I will beat it back to the hut. tell all the neighbors hello from Sunny France tell them I would like to be where I could explain a little of this life to them by talking instead of writing because this writing is no good I can't half make my self understood on paper. There are thousands of blue bells in bloom now and they are the prettiest flowers that you could want to see,

Bye bye Mother dear as ever
Laurie

13th     (6.10 P.M.)

Well Mother I just received your letter of from the 12th to 14th so I will try to answer it now.

We are having a wet P.M. hope it quits soon guess it will,

I feel a good deal like you in the way you speak about aiding the poor and refugees, when you think that I have spent for eats mostly all of the money I have drawn since I enlisted I would have lived better I think if I had not spent 1 10th of my pay that way it is only habit the other boys do it an I have done it to but guess I will quit to a large extent I know I should any way,

I just got two more letters one from Alice one from Horace, say Horace has surely used me good, he has written so often, but since I came over here an't the first time he has done that.

One of the boys is swearing because a boy friend of his in Canada signed "Yours till the war ends 1926" that was a cheerful considerate friend wasn't it. If he had been where the boy has he wrote to, he would have a different tune on his face.

14th 8.15 P.M.

Well Mother Bob B's and McKeith wanted me to come down town to have a feed of eggs and chipps tonight so we went and had a good feed. I ate 3 eggs a plate of chipps, then we walked along and talked about our letters from home and etc,

The boys were playing foot ball and base ball in two places as we got back to camp.

These are the good warm days that we all enjoy it is fine to take lectures P.T. in the sun.

I got a letter from Harvey Anderson tonight he is around on crutches now getting on slowly , but he seems rather meloncholly.

Well bye bye as ever
Laurie

P.S.      15th     A dandy A.M. we are just going to our P.T. and first aid lecture so bye bye every thing is O.K. as ever your loving son

Laurie