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"The Rising Sun"
Fix this text(With which is incorporated "The Honk!")
Fix this textA JOURNAL OF THE A. I. F., FRANCE.
Fix this textNo. 4. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, JANUARY BTH, 1917. PRICE %D.
Fix this textON GUARD.
Fix this textStuck for two bloomin' hours outside a pub!
Fix this textI wonder now what the old folks would say
Fix this textIf they could see rue put out here on guard
Fix this textWith bayonet fixed to show it isn't play.
Fix this textP'raps they'd say some lawful secret lies
Fix this textBehind them walls, and German spies there are
Fix this textLurk in' to take the sentry by surprise,
Fix this textArt fin d it out an * win th e bally war.
Fix this textOr some great gen'ral deigns the house to grace
Fix this textAn' sleeps this night behind its lowly doors,
Fix this textAn' 'er brave boy is guardian of the place,
Fix this textAn' keeps away the bogies while he snores.
Fix this textA noble cause in which to risk me 'ide,
Fix this textBut oh, dear mother, though it may seem queer
Fix this textThe Only 1 secrets that there art; inside
Fix this textAre bloomin' glasses full of spark lib' beer.
Fix this textThere's sich a lot of traffic in these parts
Fix this textThe chap 'oo 'ad this job from one to three
Fix this textK reckons that 'e saw two empty carts
Fix this textGo by, so 'e 'ad far more luck than me.
Fix this textLook where we sleep?this li( tie shanty 'ere.
Fix this textThree of us chaps. The Corp' is in there too,
Fix this textThat straw's oqr ma' tress, though it may seem queer
Fix this textIt's warm enough, and so it 'as to do.
Fix this textJust put your head in the' e an' get a whiff.
Fix this textTwo more of us are there, two dirty pigs,
Fix this textGee, they do:iim, and snuffle, grunt and sniff,
Fix this textBut we can proudly point to this, "Our digs."
Fix this textBut as fer sleep, it cant he drd'l swear,
Fix this textSome little things (We'll c ill 'em fleas,' they auit,
Fix this textBut fie is is more poetic ? are,in there,
Fix this textAnd fhey'drptWoke a saint.
Fix this textI'll call poor Ben an' get 'im out 'ere now,
Fix this textI've done this heat a hundred times at least,
Fix this textI'll go and tuck me in that stiofing row,
Fix this textAn' try and dream of 'oine an' 'ang the ; beast ,
Fix this textARTHUR DEAN.
Fix this text"NO BON FOR SOLD ATS."
Fix this textIt is chalked on an old rusty German shell
Fix this textwhich lies wickedly sideways. Does it thrill you
Fix this textto realise what a world of human feeling is con
Fix this textcentrated there ?and mixed in with it the ever-
Fix this textlasting touch of humour which helps men through
Fix this texttheir trials. Do you think of the soldier who
Fix this textwrote it? How he emptied his pocket and opened
Fix this texthis soul at the estaminet stoveside. and tasted the
Fix this textwine when it was red, and likewise the lips of the
Fix this textdear little demoiselle ; how they compromised the
Fix this texttwo old languages till they both compreed ex-
Fix this textceedingly well. How he marched and billeted,
Fix this textand marched and " bivvied " and toiled on till at
Fix this textlength he came within sound of the big doors
Fix this textbanging, and of the little birds whistling at night
Fix this textfrom the crackling "Emma Gees"?-and then he
Fix this textfought the mud, and fought his disgust, and his
Fix this textfears, and perhaps he hopped over and fought the
Fix this textHun. And maybe he saw one of the big doors
Fix this textslam on his mates, and when lie got a chance he
Fix this textscratched his story on the vicious looking dud in
Fix this textfour words. ?''No bon for soldats." I wonder if
Fix this textthat was his epitaph ?
Fix this text"SOLDIEROO."
Fix this textTAKING HIS TEMPERATURE.
Fix this textPte Bluegum : "I hear Mick Jumbuck is evacu-
Fix this textated with a broken leg ! "
Fix this textSapper (Tiewgum : " That bloke's been unlucky
Fix this textever since he. came out! He was operated on in
Fix this textEgypt and had some Aneroids removed from his
Fix this texthose,'' ;f ? ?: . ?*
Fix this textAN ANATOMIC FEAT.
Fix this textHeard during an everlasting argument concern-
Fix this texting the attractions of the Eastern States as com-
Fix this textpared with those of,the West.
Fix this text" Oh, the blokes from the East is all very well
Fix this textto your face, but behind your back, they'd
Fix this textwelt cut your throat."
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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