TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SCOTT COUNTY ADVANCE REPORTER FEBRUARY 20, 1919 P. 2
Curse my cats but I'll be the happiest I ever was in my whole put together (except for the time when the hogs ate my brother and of course that was an occasion of special enjoyment) when I do get back in the hills of Arkansas again at dear old Heathern Valley, that sole remaining earthly Eden.
What a pity that poor old Adam and Eve couldn't have been turned loose in some orchard up on Fourche instead of over on the Euphrates. For in Scott Co. they could have eaten big red apples to their hearts content and no law would have been transgressed, no mandate broken whereas for the eating of one little knotty apple of the Ben Davis variety over in Eden.
They were kicked out of the garden with nothing but fig leaves by the way of clothing, but at that I know not but what they were as well attired as the fashionable girl of today.
I would love to know how all my old friends around Heathern Valley are navigating and would be tickled to death to see them again. Even Bill Kemp's hideous visage would be a pleasant sight for me now. But never worry, old top I'll be with you ere long if I can catch the wind right.
Mr. Cox, this Armistice has gotten on my nerves and it together with the atmospheric condition of the Rhine has produced a few curious ideas in my lignum vitae cranium a sample of which you will find on the inclosed type written sheet and which you may use if you think it worthy of space in your paper.
So hoping to be with you when the roses bloom again.
Aufweidersehen.
Jay Pitman
Hdg. 3rd Army
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TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
Curse my cats but I'll be the happiest I ever was in my whole put together (except for the time when the hogs ate my brother and of course that was an occasion of special enjoyment) when I do get back in the hills of Arkansas again at dear old Heathern Valley, that sole remaining earthly Eden.
What a pity that poor old Adam and Eve couldn't have been turned loose in some orchard up on Fourche instead of over on the Euphrates. For in Scott Co. they could have eaten big red apples to their hearts content and no law would have been transgressed, no mandate broken whereas for the eating of one little knotty apple of the Ben Davis variety over in Eden.
They were kicked out of the garden with nothing but fig leaves by the way of clothing, but at that I know not but what they were as well attired as the fashionable girl of today.
I would love to know how all my old friends around Heathern Valley are navigating and would be tickled to death to see them again. Even Bill Kemp's hideous visage would be a pleasant sight for me now. But never worry, old top I'll be with you ere long if I can catch the wind right.
Mr. Cox, this Armistice has gotten on my nerves and it together with the atmospheric condition of the Rhine has produced a few curious ideas in my lignum vitae cranium a sample of which you will find on the inclosed type written sheet and which you may use if you think it worthy of space in your paper.
So hoping to be with you when the roses bloom again.
Aufweidersehen.
Jay Pitman
Hdg. 3rd Army
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD