periods of waiting in line while it seemed that every other battery went through ahead. That period will always be remembered as the worst fed of any. Continuous "slum", bacon, and "canned Bill" with an O. D. liquid called coffee was the opposite of appetizing and certainly not nourishing as half the battery were made sick by it. Fortunately this only lasted until October 13, when the batteries started to mess separately. Gradually supplies came through better and better until we were feeding very well at the end. Incidentally, the Battery fund helped a great deal in buying extras. All will remember Mess Sergeant Joe Wilner rushing around "for the good of the Bat'ry".

As living on the regular mess was almost impossible, every one financially able ate at least one meal per day at one of the cafes. The most popular ones were La Chapelle, Montauban, and the Hotel Bellevue. Patrons of La Chapelle will remember plump little "toot sweet—toot sweet" with her "feeneesh", "na ploo" and "demain." At first, prices were very reasonable. Omelettes of ten to twenty eggs were common at 50 centimes (10 cents) per egg. A good helping of beef or veal cost one or one and a half francs. There was some butter, "confitures" while they lasted, cheese and some poultry. But the Americans quickly ate up all the surplus food in the region, so that prices went rapidly up. The French were not slow in noticing that the American soldier had considerable money and would pay almost any price, partly from desire to buy, partly from ignorance of proper values. Although at the time we did not con­

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