MJ3D1CAL DrM. KJiVS Lhi’TSR,
Boar Peepul;
It has ‘boon so long since we last wrote you that we feel as
tho we must explain, and offer some kind of an excuse. Wo really
couldn’t help it,you see,first we v/ent to Juneau to get Recruits
and hxcepta onals (for the information of those that don’t know,
what exceptionaIs are,we'11 tell you,they are anything you order
that you can’t buy in the Commissary;well,you run along for a month
or two and forget what you ordered,then some nice day :n July you
get what you ordered in January, and your chicken is spoiled and
your cabbage is rotten) of course it is not that bad,but,let’s see,
where did we leave off ? a.s i said before,we went to Juneau expecting
to be away for only a couple of days, when the wind riz up, they
call it a Taku, but we call it. H—1. A week in Juneau with a Taku
wind is like being shipwrecked on a lonely South Sea island,except
that on the i3land you don’t get robbed unless The savages find you,
whereas in Juneau you can’t escape them, and beleive me, you are
lucky to get back with lha your clothes, the days when Jesse James
was at the he.ighth of his popularity are still in fashion only they
don’t use a gun and a mask. No, indeed. For boldness and fearless
ness they have Jesse on the bench in the bushiest of Bush Leagues.
You simply sign the register and receive a key, and at the end of a
week they reach, down in your pockets and count your dough and if
they happen to be in extra good humor vihey may leave you carfare,
but I doubt ic. I hope you won't get the idea that 1 am trying to
knock anyone,far be it from such, but ask any one that made the
trip, Outside of being held up a couple of times and freezing to
death in the movies,v/e had a real pleasant time, moping around a
hotel. As recruiters, we, who received honorable mention in General
Orders, are 3 fizzle, some one who has been in the ^rmy musx have
been there before us and knocked us, because the;y wouldn't listed
to room and board and thirty bucks per, so we just put Juneau down
in our Black Book,they take everything and give nothing in return.
After sojourning in Juneau for a week, we made a noble ac.tempt
to come back, on Saturday morn, but we were forced to turn back.
the elements vore too much for us. But Saturday night we made a
dash for home that stuck, and of all the sights v/e ever saw, Ftfv/m.
H.Seward was just about as pretty a sight as we ever lamped, about
10,30 Sunday morning. Grlad to get home ? Wol3,rather, even if our
plumbing did all freeze. But thanks to all the kind friends we have
in the post, everything was fixed,for which wc wore very thankful,
and take this means of saying so. But our gladness at being back
home was short lived alas, some one of our number had, while in
Juneau,hobnobbv,d,and carried on a flirtation with our old and dread
ed enemy, "Influenza 1,whoever it was should be compelled to drink
285 cc of dps ora Salts, I know it was not mo,being married .you can
readily see how impossible it would be for me to flirt, it may have
been Perry,he left his wife at home, but as wo have no means of
knowing,v/e will say no more. V/e wore home a day and a half, and one
morning we found we were unable to arise (get out of bed) and were
sick. Were v/e sick? Well,I dunno, 1 am beginning to think we v/ill
never get over it, wo havn?t felt right since. Fortunately,(for our
selves) v/e didn't die,so we have much to be thankful for, and now
it (the "flu") is dying out, ar.d next week v/e hope to report an
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