FLYING WITH SHAFFER Sitting With the Dead Ijetters From a Dauphin Boy to His Mother The aOventures of an American airman, and a Ilarrisburg boy at that, will bo printed in the Harris burg Telegraph regularly for the next two weeks following the arrival of a batch of the interesting letters from the French front from Walter J. Shaffer to his mother, Mrs. C. E. Shaffer, of Dauphin. Shaffer now is ready to go Into combat with the Boches after many months of gruelling training. His latest letters tell of exciting times many hundred feet over the Hun lines where he is beginning to "get the feel" of the battles that are to come. One of these days when Shaffer gets Into actual combat with a Taub, readers of the Telegraph, we hope, will have & chance to read a classic, for Shaffer can entertain with home ly, simply facts and experiences, and an air battle ought to be some thing thrilling. In series, be ginning to-day, he gives many in cidents of the life of a flyer, details that have a real clutch to one liv ing snug at home. Imagine going four miles in the air with the tem perature down at zero on earth. His picture of the French comedian in one letter is realistic and vivid. His account of the pilot's funeral in the letter of December 29 brings one to the spot with all its tragedy. Somewhere in France, Dec. 29, 1917. Dear Mother: Taking it all in all, this sure was some punk day all on account of a dead man, too. Honest to goodness, they cause more trouble than live ones, for the French have a gruesome custom of keeping two men watching the bddy for three days. I doiv't know what the idea is. They surely couldn't ex pect him to wake up. Anyway, #a pilot was killed in an accident the other day and immediately the watchers were "toled" off, for its an official ceremony. But since the dead pilot was not in my escadrille, 1 thought it wouldn't affect me. Xo such luck though, as last night down come an official note saying that 1 and another Frenchman should leave for Chalons the next morning to take our turn watching. Furthermore the paper stated that a truck left at 7 A. M. which meant we crawled out at ti A. M. and that went mighty hard considering that we are used to getting up at S A. M. As would be natural in a case like this. 1 was sleeping peacefully away at 6.30. The Frenchman come hunt ins me with a flashlight and routed LOOK AT CHILD'S TONGUE IF SICK, CROSS, FEVERISH Hurry, Mother! Remove poisons from little stomach, liver, bowels. Give "California Syrup of Figs" at once if bilious or constipated. Look at the tongue, mother! If coated, it is a sure sign that your lit tle one's stomach, liver and bowels need a gentle, thorough cleansing at once. 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FRIDAY EVENING, mo rudely out. So afraid was ho of missing that truck that we didn't even stop for some hot coffee, for which said Frenchy was mightly sorry soon after, because we had made the mistake of being on time. And Frenchmen don't work that way as a rule. If they don't happen to be ready on schedule, well and good, anytime after that is good en ough. So we waited around, then for two hours while the mechanics thawed the engine out. By the time the engine was warmed up we were ready to have the same thing done to us. Glory, but it was cold! Good thing we had no thermometer, else we might have suffered more. Real Thine in Cold Feet Judging from the feeling in my feet, the mercury was frozen. The said part of it was thfere was no fire to look forward to, since, as my French comrade explained to me in his broken English, it was impos sible to have a fire in a room with the dead body. Naturally, after this cheerful news, I did not enjoy the auto ride much to town. My feet got colder also. So when I got off at the hospital, I felt as if I was walking on stilts, for all the feeling left in my feet. The Frenchman did all the hunting around for informa tion as to where the "morgue" was, and he finally was told it was behind the chapelle. So in the chapelle we went, me right behind my French guide ready to go or do what ever he did, for I had no idea what was expected of me. I got the tlrst mo tion all right, which was to remove the hat as soon as entering this small-sized church, but he was too fhst with the next move, and ajty way, I being a Protestant saw no need to cross myself. Right after that I lost all interest in comrade, the dead, church, and everything else, for down in the far corner was a stove —with fire In it. I was so cold I was nearly numb, and dead or no church I was going to get warm, so I draws up a chair as if I were going to camp there for the rest of the winter. Shocked Frenchman To Fay that Frenchman looked shocked would be putting it mildly, for heremarked in a shocked, awed way, "You can't stay here! Fearing a second shock would cause him heart failure, I had the good sense not to ask "Pourguoi" (Why?) and went along with him to a little of fice where we were told to wait until some stout gentleman found the key ;to the morgue. There was another I tire in this office, which I made good | use of a few moments I was there, so good in fact, that I forgot to sa | lute a captain sitting nearby. He I didn't say anything though, and I ' wouldn't have given a hang if he I had, for that matter. Then came ! the fat man and through the chap- I elle we went again, with me looking ! longingly at the lire as we passed through, and on out the back door, to the morgue. The body of the dead pilot lay in a small room which ! looked like a dungeon and was just i about as cold as the ones you read I about Why, doggone it! It was so cold in there the holy water was l frozen. ; That surprised me considerably, ' since I always presumed that was free from natural laws. There was a small bushy bough frozen in this holy water, used for sprinkling holy water on the deceased, I suppose, for that was the tlrst thing the French man tried to do. Seeing that the pressure system wasn't working and no water came he went through the motions of making a cross with it, and then horrors of horrors, gave it to me. I didn't know what to do with the darn thing, so dipped some imaginary water up and imitated his motions—with such little success that I no doubt shocked him some more and then began our lonely vigil, for after lifting the cover and seeing how badly he was bunged up, there was nothing else interesting to do but sit there and freeze. (The pilot was killed by falling into a "vrille" from 600 meters, probably numbed by the cold, and there we stayed for three long hours and the Frenchman kept his hat off all this timip, and I naturally followed suit. In Order to keep our feet warm he walked up and down on one side of the bed and I on the other, and as I walked up and down, up and down, I was thankful I was not bald head ed. Even with thick head of hair my brain was beginning to feel the climate. Relief Delayed Orders said we were only to stay there until 10 A M. when two others would relieve us, but 10 o'clock came and no relief. There was nothing to it but stay and watch, for the the Frenchman said we had to until others came to take our places. Another hour passed, slowly and the corpse hadn't moved yet—neither had relief come and we nearly had a path worn in the stone flagging where we had walked up and down in a vain attempt to keep warm. About this time, I was beginning to wish Sherman's definition of war was literally correct. At least, it would be warm anyway. Another fact was also forcibly impressed on me, and that was that hobnailed shoes may save leather and prevent slipping, but for quick conductors of cold you can't beat them. 'They are as quick conductors of cold as elec tricity—heat also, for I've had one foot nearly in the fire for the last five minutes and got a few of these rivets red hot. It gave me an idea as Well as a burnt toe. To-morrow morning I'll heat all the hobnails before going to work) And so an other (hour passed and then the Frenchman's hunger overcame his respect for dead and duty, and he suggested we phone to camp and see what was the matter with the re serves, and then go eat, for he was so hungry that his head ached. The suggestion was good, and I assured him I would sqe that the body wasn't spirited away while he phon ed. He soon returned with the In formation that the "Commandant" said it was too perfect a day to spare any pilots for watch duty, which was about the most sensible thing I have yet heard from Frenchmen; for this "watch" custom struck me as very useless and unnecessary and it made me wonder if they did it when a whole regiment died at once. It would take a whole army to do watch duty. What made me sore, besides freezing so slowly and use lessly, was the fact that here was a beautiful day going to waste and me not flying—and I haven't flown for a week, for good days are rare, and the Captain won't let me go up other days. AH I have to say is that I hope they don't take six pilots oft the front 4f a Boche gets me. It would please my spirit much better if each of the six went out and got a Boche. 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