"K00TIE3”
(The little things that stick)
ANOTHER NEV/ DEFINITION: A nonth i3 the shortest distance between
two pay days#
§ PEAKING OF COLD LEATHER; One night while on the Dapping detail
up Chilkoot way, after "Slin” Moyer and Yours Truly had
shoveled the srow off our* bed. and crawled into the blan
kets. the wind sane up and blew so cold and cutting that
whea v/e awoke tne next morning, sixteen acres of spruce
in rear of our cabin had been cut into cor’d wood lengths#
T’was a cold and cutting wind, brethren.”
OVER HEARD AT THE N.C.O. TABIC ? "-I forgot more than you ever knew’.”
'’Perfectly correct, 03d Dear, bux doesn't St vjorry you to
thnik how nuch you’ve lost!
THOSE MILITARY MANUALS :• Canouf lage—J’The modern science of Camouflage
consists in deceiving the eneny into thinking that some
thing else is different from what it ought £0 be.”
'’-Perfectly clear? Yes?
SPEAKING OF CAMOUFLAGE: The Allowing little poem writtaa by
’’Brainless .Bates” is entitled ’’Canouf lage."
If .you 3ee a complexion that'3sppaches and cream
Remember things always aren't just what they seem,
Justt take a good look, and cone out- of your drleom
It’s Canouf luge. ' •
BaITERY ”E" OFFICER’S ORDER OF DiS RUBBER BOOT: Cpfct, Wright having
broken in, a new pair of hip, rubber boots, joined ’E”
Battery as Company Co.jmander, Tuesday.
COMMISSION EXPIRES: Our Bulls Eye getxing Corporal,"Frying Pan
Ed’s,” comis3ion as Postmaster has expired. It i3
rumored he will devote his future activities to fez
farming and prospecting in the auriferous glacial gravels..
"CHARLEY” ROSS: Not the funous”Lost” one, but our ym darling Sgt.
Major, is furlough h®urid, Sitka and way points, seeking
ancient fire arms, ,Indian curios and other things,
Mostly other things.
THE DESERTED INDIAN VILLAGE.
Empty log cabins nested * noath the spruce,
Their window frames hare and vacant eyed,
Ihewinter winds blow shrilly thru the cracks
Drifting the anew ia swirling mounds inside.
Nearby the tumbling Chilkoot River runs
Iinrnuringly over it* 3 bouldcred bed
Jhile up about on it’s pine crested banka
Lay the lonely graves of the Indian dead.
i- fsrgotten nook.raf a heedless world, . •
Dimly reminding of a race that's run,
Faopiod nsw • .%iy with purple vrhadows,
Purple ihilom casts fry the m 1 up; sin.
U-eordp F tlu'iL'y.