dandy fellow for a bunkie. It is almost unblievable the amount of work the U. S. has accomplished and that with which she is carrying on the] work, and the wotfc it takes to carry on the activities of the forces behind the lines*^ If I were the French people I would get sore about the roads; they have never had any heavy traffic until the war, but the heavy tjrucks have put the roads full of h:les, but they ace continually working to re* pair them. When they fill a chuck hole they do not merely put in enough to fill the hole, or round 1t up as in the states, but dig a place about twice the size of the hole, clear around and about 18 inches deep,than Mil with hftvv stone tin to with*