fello he is.

Its awful cold in the mornin. They blow three calls. The first is just
for the slow guys. I can make it nice from the march if I dont take too
many close off. Thats no temtashun. One guy jumps up just before
assembly and makes a lot of fuss like hes gettin dressed. He dont fool
nobody. The only thing he takes off at nite is his hat. Some says that
falls off when he gets into bed.

Angus gets up every mornin in his BVDs. I think his skin is furlined.
You can hear him smashin the ice in the pale with a hair brush outside.
Then you can tell hes washin by the noise he makes like a busted steam
pipe. Then he comes smashin into the tent leavin the door open and wipes
the ice off en his face with somebody elses towel an says gosh thats
great. I hate that kind of a fello.

Bill Huggins cleaned the stove with his towel last week sos everything
would be neet for inspecshun. Angus got hold of it in the dark next
mornin. Gee, youd haft laft, Mable.

[Illustration: "WHEN I LOOKED IN THE TIN MIRROR I THOUGHT I WAS
STARVIN"]

I got the little tin mirror you sent, Mable. Its unbreakable all right.
Bill Huggins got so mad at it he tried to break it and couldnt. The
first time I looked in it I got an awful start. I thought I was starvin.
I looked like one of them picturs of hungry Indiens that the mishunaries
show you just before they pass the plate. Bill Huggins swiped it later
and says why didnt somebody tell him he was gettin so fat cause he
couldnt go home on a furlo like that. He didnt eat nothin for three
meals and then he looked at hisseif with the mirror turned the other
way. Its like one of those Coney Island places where a fello can go in
and laff at hisself for a dime. Next time send me one that will break.

I got to quit now and buy a couple of pies before I go to bed. I dont
sleep good less I have a little somethin on my stummick. Dont say nothin
about what I told you in the beginnin.

Until the 15th Feb. then.

Yours faithfully,
_Bill._

_Dere Mable:_

The Captin aint goin to give me my furlo. Says theres an order out
against it. Someones got it in for me, Mable. I bought a wooley coat
awful cheap from Bill Huggins. Right away theres an order against em.
Angus MacKenzie sold me a pair of leather leggins for less than he paid
for them. Some bargain from Angus. The next day they issue an order that
you cant wear em. Now they hear I want to go home an put an order out
against it.