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women, children, dogs & cats [[strikethrough]] starts [[/strikethrough]] appeared on the streets telling one another the grate [great] experiences they had for the last few days in this care - or some place in France, we [[censored]] and it is the talk of the town about what the Americans did the french are so happy over them they think the war will end in a couple of months from the time we came here our [[censored]] have fe[[censored]]. [[censored]] every day with all kinds of [[censored]], Zulo, [[censored]] and [[censored]], this is [[censored]] fun in the [[censored]] getting mixed in the fight, and also ambulances driving getting lost [[strikethrough]] this [[/strikethrough]] we got a little mixture of every thing the slightly wounded want fuly [fully?] by the [[censored]] we leave the canteen for a couple of hours with buckets of coffee every evening at 7 PM to meet the [troops?] they do not pull out until dark for fear that the lunatics of Busch will shell them on their [finds?] for first ade [aid]. the other night I gave coffee to a little runt - fat, 4 feet tall big head and black as the ace of spades of a Zulu. 

he was wounded quite bad in his arm and shoulder when he saw me with the coffee he held out his other hand for coffee and of course got it. He did not smile very much but he tried to I could not help but think this little runt had in his short body a brain [done?] more for civility than the whole [[strikethrough]] Busch [[/strikethrough]] nation of course I hear many interesting stories from the all one [[censored]] but [[censored]] [[strikethrough]] on the train [[/strikethrough]] who were [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] now on this train going over to some base Hos. [][[hospital]] we give coffee & chocolate to that [[censored]] soulder [[soldier]] every day there are four of us we work from 4.30 AM to 9 PM in shifts of two. the coffee is two sous, the chocolate 4 sous. The other day M. Blanch promoted me to the counter to sell tickets for the coffee & chocolate I have a grate [great] time in making out the change in french money which amuses the French soulders [[soldiers]]. most of them try and help me out & do not think I lose very much sometimes I take in bad money but everything goes in war. The foyer is one of the greatest establishments for the soulder [[soldier]] ever done