No. 99.

France
22/9/18.

Dear Dad,

I have one of your letters from Muskoka and one you wrote after arriving home. Since then there has been little or no Canadian mail thro.

There surely was some fine bass fishing up there, and am sure you enjoyed it.

I am rather sorry you have put in those Pocket [Bens?] as they are – or were – or were the same construction as the big ones and it is impossible to repair them. The Leafs are surely an awful price tho. Have Ideal pens advanced any?

You surely did well with the AutoStrop Co. Their new take down military set is rather good.

It was very dry here too for a long time but the rain came on soon enough to fill up everything but the very early potatoes, and we have some crop. We have the second crop of turnips and they are better then the first. This month tho we have had a great deal of rain, hardly a day without a little. You will believe tho, that we raise no objection to cloudy nights.

I looked over some beautiful little bronzes the other day – the largest was I imagine under eight inches in hight and they ran as high as 340₣. – about $68⁰⁰, but the work is really wonderful.

Uncle Will was mighty foolish, I think to put so much into a concern about which he knows practically nothing. I surely hope it becomes a good thing, and that they pull down the thirty-thousand from N.Y. It is very difficult to say how the conditions after the war will affect such businesses. At the present, all Allied people are sincere in their promises not to use German goods, but there are still peace terms to be made – and no one knows what they will contain. Then it may be decidedly to our advantage to use their goods, to market raw products of some of the Allied countries.

I feel pretty well, but my eyes are bothering me and my stomach, I think as a result of their trouble. I expect to be outside in about ten days, which will rest them and I will also have them refracted.

Love to All,
Your affectionate son,
Worth.