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    Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie
    Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie
    Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie
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    Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie

    By G. William (George William) Breck and Edward Streeter

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2004
    Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie

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      Love letters of a rookie. Dere Mable letters, a humourous column from an illiterate soldier writing home.
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      Dere Mable--LOVE LETTERS OF A ROOKIEBYEDWARD STREETER27TH (N.Y.) DIVISIONWITH 35 ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE BYG. WILLIAM BRECK("Bill Breck")27TH (N.Y.) DIVISIONLater Ill tell you all about everything but I guess you won't understand much cause its tecknickle. Lots of the fellos are gettin knitted things and candy and stuff right along. Dont pay no attenshun to that, though, or take it for a hint cause it aint. I just say it as a matter of rekord. Independent if nothin. Thats me all over.Yours till the war endsBillBill, a private in the American army during World War I, decides to write letters to his girlfriend Mable to keep as a record of the war. He is still waiting to be shipped overseas, expecting to be sent to France as they are being taught French at the camp.If you download this book from Project Gutenberg, make sure you get the illustrated version, as the drawings are one of the best bits. I liked the way Bill kept teasing Mable about talking to other girls, and guilt-tripping her into sending him food, but then complaining that it arrived squashed. And teasing her for sending knitted fingerless gloves, saying he still had all his fingers thanks!I thought it was funny, especially the jokes and word-play that Bill loved so much, and short enough that it didn't outwear its welcome.
    • 3/5
      Gomer Pyle/Amelia Bedelia. The jokes go on a little long, but maybe it's better if you don't read the whole thing straight through.

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    Dere Mable - G. William (George William) Breck

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dere Mable, by Edward Streeter

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    Title: Dere Mable

    Love Letters Of A Rookie

    Author: Edward Streeter

    Release Date: November 9, 2004 [EBook #13993]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DERE MABLE ***

    Produced by Rick Niles, Charlie Kirschner and the PG Online

    Distributed Proofreading Team.

    MABLE

    Dere Mable--

    LOVE LETTERS OF A ROOKIE

    BY

    EDWARD STREETER

    27TH (N.Y.) DIVISION

    WITH 35 ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE BY

    G. WILLIAM BRECK

    ("Bill Breck")

    27TH (N.Y.) DIVISION

    1918

    DEDICATION

    To a million Private Bills who have suddenly learnt to call a coat a blouse. Taking things as they find them. Vaguely understanding. Caring less. Grumbling by custom. Cheerful by nature. Ever anxious to be where they are not. Ever anxious to be somewhere else when they get there. Without thought of sacrifice. Who have left the flag-waving to those at home. Who serve as a matter of course.

    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    Dere Mable

    Love Letters of a Rookie

    Dere Mable:

    I guess you thought I was dead. Youll never know how near you was to right. We got the tents up at last, though, so I got a minit to rite. I guess they choose these camps by mail order. The only place there flat is on the map. Where our tents is would make a good place for a Rocky Mountin goat if he didnt break his neck. The first day the Captin came out an says Pitch your tents here. Then he went to look for someone quick before anyone could ask him how. I wish I was a Captin. I guess he thought we was Alpine Chasers. Eh, Mable? But you probably dont know what those are.

    Honest, Mable, if Id put in the work I done last week on the Panamah Canal it would have been workin long before it was. Of course there was a lot of fellos there with me but it seemed like all they did was to stand round and hand me shovels when I wore em out.

    The Captin appresheates me though. The other day he watched me work awhile and then he says Smith. He calls me Smith now. We got very friendly since I been nice to him. I noticed none of the other fellos had much to say to him. I felt kind of sorry for him. Hes a human bein even if he is a Captin, Mable. So every time I saw him I used to stop him and talk to him. Democratic. Thats me all over, Mable. Smith he says If they was all like you round here war would be hell, no joke. By which he meant that we would make it hot for the Boshes.

    I been feelin awful sorry for you,

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