Well Al when it was all over I couldn’t hardly keep from laughing because you see I come out of it OK and the laugh was on Smith and Lee and Doran because I got just what I wanted because I never did want to be a corporal because it meant I couldn’t pal around with the boys and be their pals and I never felt right when I was giveing them orders because I would rather be just one of them and make them feel like we were all equals.

Of course they wasn’t no time on the whole trip when Lee or Doran or Smith either one of them had me fooled because just to look at them you would know they are the kind of smart alex that’s always trying to put something over on somebody only I figured two could play at that game as good as one and I would kid them right back and give them as good as they sent because I always figure that the game ain’t over till the ninth inning and the man that does the laughing then has got all the best of it. But at that I don’t bear no bad will towards neither one of them and I have got a good notion to ask Capt. Seeley to let them off easy.