The Rising sun

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Np 940.305 RIS
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In the field, France : Anzac Press, 1916-1917
Issue
Issue No. 4 (January 8th, 1917)
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"The Rising Sun"  

(With which is incorporated "The Honk!")  

JOURNAL OF THE A. I. F., FRANCE.  

No. 4. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, JANUARY BTH, 1917. PRICE %D.  

ON GUARD.  

Stuck for two bloomin' hours outside pub!  

wonder now what the old folks would say  

If they could see rue put out here on guard  

With bayonet fixed to show it isn't play.  

P'raps they'd say some lawful secret lies  

Behind them walls, and German spies there are  

Lurk in' to take the sentry by surprise,  

Art fin it out an win th bally war.  

Or some great gen'ral deigns the house to grace  

An' sleeps this night behind its lowly doors,  

An' 'er brave boy is guardian of the place,  

An' keeps away the bogies while he snores.  

noble cause in which to risk me 'ide,  

But oh, dear mother, though it may seem queer  

The Only secrets that there art; inside  

Are bloomin' glasses full of spark lib' beer.  

There's sich lot of traffic in these parts  

The chap 'oo 'ad this job from one to three  

reckons that 'e saw two empty carts  

Go by, so 'e 'ad far more luck than me.  

Look where we sleep?this li( tie shanty 'ere.  

Three of us chaps. The Corp' is in there too,  

That straw's oqr ma' tress, though it may seem queer  

It's warm enough, and so it 'as to do.  

Just put your head in the' an' get whiff.  

Two more of us are there, two dirty pigs,  

Gee, they do:iim, and snuffle, grunt and sniff,  

But we can proudly point to this, "Our digs."  

But as fer sleep, it cant he drd'l swear,  

Some little things (We'll ill 'em fleas,' they auit,  

But fie is is more poetic are,in there,  

And fhey'drptWoke saint.  

I'll call poor Ben an' get 'im out 'ere now,  

I've done this heat hundred times at least,  

I'll go and tuck me in that stiofing row,  

An' try and dream of 'oine an' 'ang the beast  

ARTHUR DEAN.  

"NO BON FOR SOLD ATS."  

It is chalked on an old rusty German shell  

which lies wickedly sideways. Does it thrill you  

to realise what world of human feeling is con  

centrated there ?and mixed in with it the ever-  

lasting touch of humour which helps men through  

their trials. Do you think of the soldier who  

wrote it? How he emptied his pocket and opened  

his soul at the estaminet stoveside. and tasted the  

wine when it was red, and likewise the lips of the  

dear little demoiselle how they compromised the  

two old languages till they both compreed ex-  

ceedingly well. How he marched and billeted,  

and marched and bivvied and toiled on till at  

length he came within sound of the big doors  

banging, and of the little birds whistling at night  

from the crackling "Emma Gees"?-and then he  

fought the mud, and fought his disgust, and his  

fears, and perhaps he hopped over and fought the  

Hun. And maybe he saw one of the big doors  

slam on his mates, and when lie got chance he  

scratched his story on the vicious looking dud in  

four words. ?''No bon for soldats." wonder if  

that was his epitaph  

"SOLDIEROO."  

TAKING HIS TEMPERATURE.  

Pte Bluegum "I hear Mick Jumbuck is evacu-  

ated with broken leg  

Sapper (Tiewgum That bloke's been unlucky  

ever since he. came out! He was operated on in  

Egypt and had some Aneroids removed from his  

hose,'' ;f ?: ?*  

AN ANATOMIC FEAT.  

Heard during an everlasting argument concern-  

ing the attractions of the Eastern States as com-  

pared with those of,the West.  

Oh, the blokes from the East is all very well  

to your face, but behind your back, they'd  

welt cut your throat."  

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