Dear Mother,

I finally found some spare time, so here comes a letter. Nothing too interesting has happened lately to write about, but I'll do my best to make this interesting. Yesterday I got my last typhoid shot and much to my surprise, it didn't affect me at all. Most fellows were quite sick this morning, but I was feeling just fine. My arm, the left one, was slightly sore, but otherwise, I was O.K. I only have two tetanus shots left to take, so I guess that the shots won't hurt me.

Last night I played some bridge - you'd be surprised at the number of fellows who play bridge around here. I went to bed early, expecting to wake up sick, but I didn't get sick.

Today, quite a few fellows went into town, but for some reason J.M. Buxton wasn't on the list. So I stayed here, but am "acting barracks lieutenant" in Flight H. Not a bad job, but I certainly wouldn't want it permanently. You have to worry about too many little unimportant details. Also, a barracks lieutenant doesn't have time to take physical training and I certainly don't want to miss that.

A new bunch of "feathermerchants" (civilians) arrived here today. I didn't realize how funny long hair and some civilian clothes could look. Quite naturally all us "veterans" ride the new boys pretty much - try to make them salute us and stuff like that. But, it's all in fun and they'll soon realize that. One boy in Flight A came down with scarlet fever, so the entire flight has been confined to quarters. I guess they won't do much for the next week or so.

We had a storm last night. It rained pretty hard, but today is hot and sunny as usual.

The Glee Club is going along fine. We got an arrangement of "My Buddy" and worked on it a while last night. We are going to rehearse again tonight and hope to have some new music.

Well, that's about all of any interest I can think of right now, so I'll close. I'll write more tomorrow if possible.

Love,
Jack

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