Things are going along O.K. without much news to write about.  Sarah Bernhart the French comedian was in Rockford Friday and come out to give the boys a treat and for some reason another the most of the boys fell all over their self trying to get up close to her and get her to smile at them.  Well Al everybody to their own taste but from what I seen of her she would be perfectly safe around me and if she is a day old she is 50 yrs. old and I will bet money on it.  Any way I wouldn’t trade Florrie for a dozen like she.

Your pal, JACK.

CAMP GRANT, Nov. 7.

FRIEND AL: Here is one for you Al and its just between you and I because I wouldn’t have no one else hear about it for the world.  Yesterday we was all presented with some sox made out of knitting and they come in a bunch from the Red X and when I was going to bed I thought I would try mine on and see if they fit and if they didn’t maybe I could trade with somebody that they did.  Well Al I stuck my foot down in 1 of them and my toe run into something funny and I pulled my foot out and stuck my hand down in it and pulled out a note that was folded in side of the sock.  Well of course I opened the note up and read it and I will copy down what it said.  It says “Dear Soldier Boy, you may never see me but if you can spare time to write me just a few lines it will make me happier than any one in the world for I am oh so lonesome.  You won’t disappoint me will you Soldier Boy?” And it was signed Lone Star but down below she had wrote her name and address.  Her name is Miss Lucy Chase and she lives in Texas.

Well Al I can’t help from feeling sorry for her and if it wasn’t for Florrie and little Al I would write her a note back and thank her for the sox though between you and I they are to small and try and say something that would cheer her up.  But of course Florrie wouldn’t like for me to do it and a married man shouldn’t ought to be monking around like that and lead a girl on though of course if I did write to her the first thing I would tell her would be that I am married.

But what has been puzzling me is where she seen me.  Maybe it was 1 of the times we played in Texas in the spring trip either that or she seen my picture somewheres.  Well Al it must of been a picture without my feet in it or she would of made the sox bigger and I wish she had of because I don’t feel like tradeing them off to nobody now that I know they was made for me by a admirer.  Laying all jokes to 1 side I do feel sorry for the girl and if she had of made herself known to me a few years sooner things might of been different.  Don’t say nothing about this even to Bertha because I don’t want it to get all over Bedford.  I am not the kind that brags around about their admirers especially when its a girl.

[Illustration:  Everybody cut loose and sung and you could of heard us in Beloit.]

I thought once or twice today that I would just drop her a card pretending like the sox fit me to a tea and thanking her for them and giving a hint that I was a married man but on second thoughts I guess its better to just let the whole affair drop right here.