But it might be worse.

I got Susan's box today and everything was in tip-top order and we had a feast.

Jerry is up the line somewhere and he says the rations are rather worse than Aunt Martha's ditto used to be.

But here they're not bad--only monotonous.

Tell Susan I'd give a year's pay for a good batch of her monkey-faces; but don't let that inspire her to send any for they wouldn't keep.
"We have been under fire since the last week in February.