Do you like wooden shoes? They do here. The kids clump along on the stone road with as much noise as a horse. They all can say “Gimme penee Americain” and many can talk more English. They are certainly glad to see Americans, and not for what they get out of them, as we had so often heard, but because they are genuinely glad to have Americans working side by side with their own men in the big cause. But at first they used to wonder why Americans were all boys; if they were grown up, surely they would have hair on their faces, and were not these men smoothfaced? Such little things one gets in talking to natives.
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Letters from Sidney Friend During The Great War 