E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Matthew Wheaton, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 37561-h.htm or 37561-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/37561/pg37561-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37561/37561-h.zip) "THATS ME ALL OVER, MABLE" by LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER 27th (N.Y.) Division Author of "Dere Mable" With 25 Illustrations in Black-And-White by Corp. G. William Breck ("Bill Breck") 27th (N.Y.) Division New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers Copyright, 1919, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All Rights Reserved LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Bill "We can fire all we want without hittin nothin" "I sit on a hill all day" "A bunch lyin under the trees" "My, what an awful bore" "The fello with the long hair" "He thinks there so sad that he almost cries" "They get awful fat, of course" "They come and get our dirty wash" "It aint as dangerous as I thought" "Angus likes it cause he can sit down in it" "If the top sargent dont remember" "She always carries a kid under her arm" "I dont eat nothin outside of meal hours exceptin a few pies" "I couldnt see a thing except the side of the hill" "He outran the other fello" "I sat next to a lady what didnt seem to have much on but a lot of jewels" "The minister has two daughters--both girls" "They gave us coffee in egg cups" "The first sargent wouldnt let me" "The only thing they do to the rain is to strain it" "I just found your pictur at the bottom of my barrack bag" "I dont seem to need as much food as I used to" "Joe Loomis" "The tailor must have been a boiler maker once" "_Thats Me All Over, Mable_" _Dere Mable_: I take my pen in hand to tell you what do you think I done now? I left the infantry an gone back into the artillery. The Captin hated to let me go. He said the Artillery Colonel was a friend of his. I guess thats why he finally said all right. It wasnt that I was scared of the infantry. I guess you know that I aint scared of anything that walks on two legs except the measles. The artillerys really more dangerous than the infantry cause you stand in one place so they can get a good line on you while in the infantry your running round all the time. Seein the Captin was so jealous of me I thought a fello with brains would have more chance over here. I tried to transfer as an officer but the Captin said I better go over as a private and as soon as they saw what kind of a fello I was theyd fix me all right. He seemed to wake up a little when he saw I was goin. Im going to put in my applicashun for an officer as soon as I get a chance.