Jan 23/17

Dear Mary M Don Stan Jack Bruce Ruth & Ivan

I just read all Xams letters you sent on Xmas day it is great to get such homemade letters & see you are thinking of your old dad. glad you did not get the undercloths have got on good enough wish you could have sent more parcels of eats though I am some eater of but you do not know that of old we do not get more than the law allows & our change soon disappears. My M. is a dandy writer I know it must be hard to get time to write. but you know how it is a fellow likes to get some every time his chum does Donald & Stan are great to think of their dad as often as they do glad they got so many things for Xmas a good number of small ones & one or two big ones makes a good time for a boy or girl. we are sleeping on wire beds now & the cold gets under them bad but I have not as bad a cold as some the snow is about three inches on the fields two sheaves of straw on the ground makes a good bed we had that for two of us the last place we are not in but will be soon will be carrying the eats in most of the time thirteen is the work party. that woman said this thing would end next month tme will tell looks are against it glad you got the money OK thought it would be answered at once your other letter was Dec 24 & this one is Dec 26 but I got them two weeks apart or ten days I got the Dec 4 just the in between so you see they come sometime anyway keep up the good work. I am turned up on the ground so much that part is hard to keep feeling O.K these days will take a run in a few minutes I have on a pair of Agnes netting but my blood is out of order & I fell last night trying to slide on my back it does not help my feeling any I hope you will not try to work yourself sick honey if you are feeling better it must be quite a job keeping the house warm with sutch large rooms try if possible I have not found out H Wooleys place but I here it is near may see him sometime can not leave our arria very well I can not site here any longer my hands are stiff this very heavy for France they say did not go on the field this morning will afternoon a march would be O.K now. that is a fair one. my legs feel the last one yet. but my I am able as far as flesh goes. these aches will hurt. you did not put in (Dads letter) this time 215 Will start over soon I here. (hope they do not have to) well will close with lots of good wishes for you all so glad you all think some of the old man M has a good way of sending hugs thoes big ones of Dons must be the long ones I will send some round ones

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Yours Old dad

Roy