France May 4/16 Dear Mother Just received your parcel of March 29th also a letter of April 14th this morning. I am getting along O.K. and hope you are all the same. We are having lovely weather now so nice that one can sleep in the open without a blanket. The farmers here-that is- a few miles back of the firing lane have nearly all their crops in. They grow a great deal of hops around here. None of those short ones that could not climb a six foot pole, but ones that have to have big poles about 25 feet high put in the ground then they stretch a wire across from the top of one pole to the other and then hang other wires about 3 feet apart from that to the ground. The hops get to the top of them too. Just a few yards from here I can see a 12 inch shell that Fritz thew over some time ago (maybe a few months ago.) but it failed to explode. It would make a fine watch-fob. What is Walter Jones and Frank Bouyer busy at now. Are they still in the fox business. Do you ever hear from Blanche McLeod now. I had a letter in the winter, but have not heard from her lately. Well I must close. That maple sugar and apples went fine. Write soon. Goodbye Charlie