PETROL IN THE STEW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 4 March 1915, Page 9

PETROL IN THE STEW

A transport driver ( writes tome:— "We do not mind a little petrol in onr stews. It all goes the some way, or it might get half-filled with mud, splashed, u'p by a passing motor. . We do not mind that in the least—it all helps to colour the gravy. "I have not told anything about our stews yet. I have all that to tell her when I get' home. But won't my cooking experience come in handy when [ get home! Y<Ju see it will be like .this. . When -— and' I have a little tiff. I shall be able to turn round arid say,. 'All right, I will cook my own food,' and-then go.put-in the back garden and make a little fire; etc.. Make some , tea in an old can,., and fry some bacon and sit on the dustbin and eat it. • "I belong to another section now, and we go up to where the soldiers are resting who come out of the trenches. They are a 'pitiable sight to see, too. We go up every day, and what I cannot understand is. the spirits of the men. I often ask them how they are going on, and they all say, '.Tolly fine,', or words to that effect. You never hear them complaining, yet they are smothered up to their necks in mud this weather."