...which will indicate the folks are aware of my safety.

The big event of the day is the war news and today's seemed good.

Aug 10th Well all the athletic exercise of yesterday wasn't of any material benefit as I caught a beautiful cold, in the shape of soreness of stomach muscles and arm and leg muscles due to foolishly taking off my raincoat and going about 2 hours in sweaty clothes. However all will be sunshine tomorrow.

A bit of rain today and that faulted by a good warm spell of sunshine.

The dinner bell rings now for the second class or group and is real good. barley soup, sauerkraut & jam.

 

 

This morning I played two hours of volleyball to take the stiffness out of me, but it did not help much.

The Americans here are surely a fine bunch of men, and have taken care of us in a real fatherly manner. They give us from their scant stores to break the monotony of the meals.

There are some of the captains of merchant ships here which were sunk by the "Wolf" a year or more ago.

Today we received the samples of our photographs and they are really good. I intend sending to you pictures of our group and of ourselves - separate. I mean of Dr. Stevens, and Swarts...

 

...and myself. These photos when you see them will assure you better than anything else that I am well and full of pep and do not intend to let this life here make me lazy or sickly or in any way useless.

Today I finished reading the "The Fashionable Adventures of Josua Leraig", by David Graham Phillips, and after plowing thru the life of a very crude and impossible being in the person of "Craig" for some 280 pages the remaining 76 were chuck full of good laughs and of very unexpected situations. I felt repaid for reading it.

It is now 7:15 PM I think...

 

 

...I'll hop outside and have a half hour or so at volleyball.

Spent the evening talking over incidents of interest in the old battalion with Sloan.

Bed as usual at 10:30 when the electric lights go out.

Aug 11/1918 Slept soundly till 3:30 AM, and was awakened by the cold, this being the case naturally a cold time is ahead for the Winter here, with August so cold as to wake a fellow from a sound sleep.

Today I saw a German girl that reminded me of Mabel Gross is it possible she is a mother now, the thought just struck me. Perhaps it is so. If so she will no doubt take on weight and...