The Gas Attack - O'Ryan's Roughnecks
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Hendersonville, North Carolina<br />
COMPANY B, 107TH<br />
INFANTRY.<br />
We have with us an institution founded on<br />
the uncertain pedestal of New York's ancient<br />
political days known as '' Tammany Hall.' 1<br />
Its various members are mysteriously unknown<br />
although the suspicious are wont to<br />
speak their minds now and then.<br />
At present<br />
consternation reigns among these tigers of<br />
old due to the strange but indisputable hieroglyphics<br />
recently discovered on the 1 ' Bump<br />
Board."<br />
(London papers please copy.)<br />
. <strong>The</strong> past two weeks were very much occupied<br />
between the trip to the range, which was<br />
new and interesting, and the three day '' house<br />
party ' in the trenches<br />
which was nothing<br />
new, thus failing to attract our attention in<br />
the least.<br />
Certain young men who allowed the god<br />
Morpheus to overcome them with his hypnotic<br />
ways while they '' took charge of this<br />
post and all government.property, etc., etc." most of the rumors floating around. But now<br />
will agree that the trenches are a great mistake.<br />
with the recent issue of blue "jumpers" we<br />
are inclined to be skeptical.<br />
Corporal MeLellan has left us to be a sergeant<br />
at Division Headquarters. Good luck,<br />
Mac!<br />
We are still laying for that mongrel belonging<br />
to Corporal Irvine. Already the front<br />
lawns of a good many squads have suffered as<br />
a result of the pedal extremities of this<br />
shaggy looking member of the canine race.<br />
Now the question is:<br />
Where did Sergeant- Schoen have those<br />
blond hairs cut off? And why?<br />
Did you know that Woods was in the<br />
trenches?<br />
Why did Holmes go South instead of North<br />
on his furlough?<br />
Is J. J. Riley any relation to J. G. Riley?<br />
If so, why?<br />
As far as we know there were no riots on<br />
St. Patrick's day. However a near-riot almost<br />
took place the other afternoon when<br />
Corporal O 'Brien, who was lately transferred<br />
to the Headquarters Company, went galloping<br />
by us on a milk-black steed of wavering gait<br />
and tearful eye. It was only by means of<br />
fixed bayonets that the crowd was kept back.<br />
Speaking of Camouflage, why does Fitzpa<br />
trick have to take it up as a special study?<br />
If we remember correctly Fitz could make a<br />
pick-axe look like a 500-ton girder with the<br />
throttle wide open.<br />
Under the guise of what might be called a<br />
society news item, Jim Aimer and Ken Day<br />
have<br />
taken the week off to distribute programs<br />
at the Division Show down at the<br />
Harris <strong>The</strong>atre.<br />
Democratically speaking they are the personification<br />
of "Free Lances in Diplomacy.' ;<br />
We have in our midst a certain corporal in<br />
the 4th platoon who is the only man in the<br />
history of the United States Army that ever<br />
gets up before the blood-curdling notes of<br />
"First Call ' ring out on the morning breeze<br />
7<br />
at 5:45 a. m.<br />
No, he -s not on any special detail nor is<br />
lie a member of the Shower-Bath Club; hence<br />
the cause for this early rising on his part is<br />
still a mystery.<br />
Now we wouldn't give a good continental,<br />
ding-busted darn if he got up at mid-night IF<br />
he would only condescend to allow the peaceful<br />
and law-abiding members of the company<br />
to slumber on in restful sleep. But such is<br />
not the case. <strong>The</strong> corporal begins to feel a<br />
little lonesome for want of company so he<br />
starts in at the head of the street and wakens<br />
you with a lusty yell "Come on me brave<br />
lads, up and at 'em!"<br />
When he has traversed the length of the<br />
street with his morning call he awaits the<br />
outcome with indomitable courage and unblinking<br />
eyebrows.<br />
We are not making any threats nor do we<br />
contemplate the shedding of blood but we repeat<br />
the motto of the ancient priests ef<br />
Rome, "Beware the Ides of March."<br />
Note:—All formal notices must reach us<br />
before 8 a. m.<br />
Please omit<br />
flowers.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a time when we would<br />
believe<br />
As Ted Murphy says, "Why didn 't they<br />
tell us that in the first place and we could<br />
have brought our old clothes down with us."<br />
<strong>The</strong> company was very much grieved to<br />
hear of the illness of First Sergeant Hutchinson,<br />
who was sent over to the Officers 5 Training<br />
School last January and had been doing<br />
very well there when he was taken sick. We<br />
trust that he will get back to his normal<br />
health very soon.<br />
CORPORAL D. VAN R. HILL.<br />
COMPANY E, 51ST PIONEER<br />
INFANTRY.<br />
Of late "fall in" means with saws and<br />
axes.<br />
Mrs. Daniel J. Cassidy and son, wife and<br />
son of Captain D. J. Cassidy, of this Company,<br />
are visiting in Kingston, N. Y.<br />
Corporals Pousant and Woodruff are attending<br />
cooking school and soon expect to be<br />
full fledged "chefs."<br />
Sergeant Charles Pauly and Private Robert<br />
Norton are enjoying their furloughs in<br />
Catskill, N. Y., and vicinity.<br />
Cook Hugh Glenn on has been transferred to<br />
our headquarters where he will act as able<br />
assistant to First Cook "Poppy" Roe, also<br />
formerly of this company.<br />
First Lieutenant Albert C. ^Fredman is<br />
spending a furlough in Brooklyn, N. Y.<br />
Our company comedian, Thomas Genteel,<br />
better known as "Charlie Chaplin," is undecided<br />
whether to be a bugler, mule skinner or<br />
take an S. C. D.<br />
Cook Christiana made fritters for the boys<br />
recently. Mess Sergeant Kerr stood by him<br />
while mess was being served but much to the<br />
surprise of Cook Williams, no riot occurred.<br />
CORPORAL JEAN L. BAPTISTE.<br />
Next week there will be a fine example of<br />
artistic photography in the GAS ATTACK.<br />
will contain, among other features, the sort<br />
of picture you would like to have in your<br />
den if you had a den. Don't miss it.<br />
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