FATTY, OF ANZAC

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2670, 17 January 1916, Page 3

FATTY, OF ANZAC

The good-fellowship and good sportsmanship shown by some of the Turks are engagingly celebrated in these lines, which appeared over the pseudonym ii •'Touchstone" in the "Daily Mail": — Fatty, a large, well-nourished Turk, with a certain humorous twist, Us«t to pop up his head from the trench and signal us when we missed; Tfi'cn !fe would just bob down again, and his dlaugh was loud and gay, For Patty was always fond of his joke in his curious Turkish way. But- Fatty was more ."than a ; bit of a sport, when all was said l and done, For he spotted two of our wounded lads that lay in the blistering sun. And up he bobbed and salaamed and smiled, and you bet we didn't fire • When Fatty crept up with a spot of drink to give them their hearts' desire. . He their heads and he poured it down with the Good Samaritan touch. (There's dam few Boches, I'll bet my boots, would ever have done as much.) And when he tipped us a last look rouDd with a cheery-o kind of smile We gave him a rousing cheer for himself that might have been heard a mile. And af sundown Fatty was out again, etill wearing that cheerful grin, T& shift those wounded| boys, if you please,, to where wo could fetch them in! So now, though to strafe that perfect gent would be northing short of a crime, Wo shoot at Fatty to make him laugh , . . and miss him every time!