Powhatan Clarke letter to Mother - February 17, 1918
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[February] 17
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get decent polish at all and saddle soap or any cleaner is unheard of. This afternoon we were standing on the main street after an exciting game of billiards when a horse came along with some harness hanging by his heels. All of a sudden he started kicking to free himself bowled over the old French man & proceeded to kick his was all around over the place. Every time any body thought the horse was safely headed away the darn brute would swing around and come at you again. He kept me hopping four or five times. The last time he stopped to kick about four feet from me & I proceeded to grab. I don
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hard to hold. I watched the chance
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I was so flabbergasted I didn
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As per usual nothing to report but much health appetite ambition and time. This being unattached is too much nothing. No moves stillroom across the hall from the Squadron . So near yet so far. Here after I
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| Title | Powhatan Clarke letter to Mother - February 17, 1918 |
| Creator | Clarke, Powhatan |
| Source | Clarke, Powhatan. Letter to Mother. 17 February 1918. Clarke, Powhatan Papers. A0293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Powhatan H. Clarke sent this letter to his mother and thanked her for the box of magazines she sent. Clarke served with the 21st Aero Squadron and Labor Bureau A.E.F. during Word War I. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--Military life--United States; Soldiers--Recreation |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI; United States. Army. Aero Squadron, 21st |
| Site Accession Number | A0293 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | February 17, 1918 |
| Language | English |