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[Note stuck on top of page:]
Dear Mother [underlined] -
Please re-address to Edward
in new envelope. I have not
his address.

Sept. 20, 1918

Dear Edward - Boogoo,

So you beat me over all right. Because
I'm still here waiting with the rest of the gang. The Germans who
run the Air-graft department naturally don't want us in
France so of course we won't go.

But you're there and when the big noise is over and
people ask me where I was I'll say "Oh, I was in California."
But you can burst a few gold buttons and make them listen to
you. I can see you now with your hand in your coat, like
Napoleon, after cooties. Your dugout is rather small and now