May 28, 1944

Dear Folks:                                                May 28
            Just got back from chapel. Really a spring day here. The pup really has a temper. He gets fighting mad if pushed around any. Another pup just his size came around yesterday and Him preceded to pick a fight. The other pup wouldn’t be bluffed and soon the two were best of friends. There are two cats around here. One of them is exactly like Dinah was. Same color, same tail. The other is an enormous tomcat, tiger colored with white feet and breast.
            One of the men was kidding his wife and wrote: “It has been written a soldier that giveth a power-of-attorney to his spouse loseth both money and spouse. ” Josephine sent me some good snapshots of the family. That dagger I sent them was “bargained” out of natives where I saw Warren. The doll was boughten in London. Have them show you the “Yank” magazine & daily “Stars & Stripes”
            Well! See Leonard’s family is all married off now.
            My mail has been coming thru O.K. Hope this one gets thru without delay. The pictures were good. Now how about some of cultivator & combine. Also try mixing the family in with the machinery and livestock. How long does it take to remove the cultivator from the tractor? Yes, we get to listen to the radio. You heard what happened to the Seine, didn’t you? Yes I got the flashlite. This fixing up the huts and yards is running into competition. Everybody is doing it now. Lt. Hollis is a Capt. now. The barley is just headed up. The weather is so cool I guess it holds it back. It was planted in March. All for now.
                                    Yours truly,
                                                John