I don't believe Maude (used to be) Ballard will ever amount to anything but it really ain't her fault. I suppose her man has joined. He told me the weekend before we left there that he intended to leave her & that Clarence Boynton was going with him. Did he?

      That Marie Lewis is a friend to Lot Gibson isn't she. Leo B. is no friend of mine. I wrote twice & no ans. It is also the same to Niger. He is sore because Gwendolyne writes to me. I don't think he really has any right to be but you know he always did want his own way.

      Now folks I don't want you to worry about me. I am always think of you folks & thinking of what kind of a boy you want me to be. I am living up to it too.

      You must have missed one of my letters because there is always two or 3 leaves here every wk.

      Well, I must close & get ready for dinner. I am as ever

Your own son
Kinley Cisney
10th Company
Fort Miley
San Francisco, Cal.

No more understood a recruit, but a Private. But don't address the envelopes that way just like this. Fort Miley is on the 43rd st of Frisco.