Dere Bill Author:Florence Elizabeth Summers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Heres my poetry. Its not as good as yours but it rhymes enough for you to get the main idea. MY HERO When I think about the guns, Smashin up the german Hun... more »s, It makes the shivers creep But my heart begins to leap. I hear the drums wild beat, To the tread of marchin feet, And I figure through it all Who answered Uncle Sammys call. He is now engaged in strife That may mean his mortal life, On his baynut are two Boshes Uttering dreadful cries an Goshes. "MY POETRY IS NOT AS GOOD AS YOURS"—Page 85 Theres an awful din an prattle, Through the ragin of the battle, Though theres mud an rain an slop He leads the boys over the top. Into no mans land they go And as they face the awful foe Hes the one that has the punch An the bravest of the bunch. An now Bill when you come home Dont be swelled around the dome Or in love with some French girl Because she has a little curl. But remember that Im waitin An also anticipatin That for me therell be concern On the day when you return. "ROY GAVE ME SOME PERFUME"—Page 89 I hope youll like it, Bill. Dont show it to the other fellos for their girls might not be poetical and it would make them feel bad because they couldnt get some too. Thats all in fun of course, Bill. Roy gave me some perfume the other day, but Im still gettin stronger and stronger for you. Mable "roy Got us Tickets"—Page or I may not get to write often next week for a Chantauque is comin to town an Roy got us tickets. He got them give to him complimentary for sellin them to the leadin Business men. A Chantauque aint a kind of automobile, Bill, though one of the big bugs Roy went to sell tickets to seemed to think so. Roy asked him if he was goin to support the Chantauque an he said hed done bought a Cadalack. I dont know exactly what i...« less