Dear Folks at Home.

      I received your most welcome letter yesterday & maybe you don't think I didn't give it a glad welcome.

      How is everyone over there? I am fine & dandy, still enjoying myself & here's hoping this finds you people the same.

      I received a letter from Mike's & also one from Sis Inez . Both were great too. But not so much so as yours.

      So Aunt Agnes has left, has she. I was hoping she would stay there until I got back. But I am looking for a letter from her just the same. Whether she writes or not I'll keep waiting for one.

      Has Dad planted any spuds yet? I was thinking about how they used to do back there on Good Friday, but here it doesn't make any difference. All days are alike.

      Mother, you was right. I think Kelly H. made a poor mistake & I also think it is a good thing his mother isn't living to see the mistake. I pity Mr. Henderson. My believe is that one of his daughters is pretty selfish also Mrs. P.

      Say but I would like to see all them little nieces & nephews of mine. There sure is a lot of them. Try & send me all the pictures you can as I might not know them all when I get back.

      You can tell “little Billy” that wasn't a very nice way for her to act with other people's things.

      Mike seems awfully proud of his new team & I believe they are OK as he never put anything to its limit yet.

      What does little Doyle think of his new sister? I'll bet he is a card alright.

      Tell Sid's & Dess' to cut loose some of the kids pictures & some of their own as I have none of any of them. What picture I have sure get plenty of looking over.

      Does Steve help Sid much or does he go to school? I suppose he will soon be going it alone.

      Don't you worry. When I get back it will be farm for me & I don't think I'll take it alone. The girls over here are like they are in the States, some pretty, some not. Some good & some bad. But the old U. S. A. ones for me. I had a nice friend here for a while but she lives quite aways from where we are stationed, so I could not keep steady company with her. She was awfully nice & also very good looking, her name was Miss Aline Chauvin.

      I see lots of little girls 8 & 9 yrs of age which I would like to send home but it would be impossible now. But after the war it might be different. Can't you find any at the orphanage at Sioux City? I think you had might try again.

      So Ernest thinks he will enlist. I sure hope he does & tell him to make it Quarter Master as a truck driver, or the C. A. C.

      Mother I remember well about a year ago today or the day of the parting. It doesn't seem that long & it certainly has been time well spent because in this big school one learns how to appreciate friends & the respect that is shown them. And when I return I think it will show on me.

      I get the Coleridge Blade nearly every wk but haven't received the stationary you sent or the tobacco Joe sent yet, but expect it today or tomorrow.

      Does Dad still run the shop & where? I was reading the paper where old Pollet was going to make a garage out of the building.

      Well I have written about all the news so will close for this time.