JABBERWOCKS AND BOOJUMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1629, 26 October 1916, Page 4

JABBERWOCKS AND BOOJUMS.

Further stories are told of the new armoured cars which the soldiers have now christened Jabber - wocks and Boojums. The Germans say they are not fair.

There is trouble for the Hun, and it gels him on the run, When the Jahherwock and Boojum go to Avar. When he hoars and sees the snorting and ridiculous cavorting Of contraptions that Avorc never built before. When he sees a solid Avail underneath the bonnet fall, He mbs his eyes and dunno Av’ere ’e are, For it knocks him nearly dilly — and the soldiers call it Willie —The Jahherwock, the British armoured ear. From a prehistoric age, from the pantomimic stage, From the Avonderland where everything Avas rum, They have dragged these fearsome creatures Avilli grotessqne and iron features. And sicked them at the Bodies on the Somme. Now the Boclic starts (o buzz (as lie generally does When the British gel a move on anvAvliere) Thai Ave've caught a Pleisosaurus to Avaddle on before ns, Ami lie yammers that avc are not playing fair.

It is very, A 7 cry Avrong to adopt a method strong, And get the gentle Boche in the ncek; If you treat him very nieely, and ohseiwe Hie rules precisely, You can hot lie’ll make the rules p. perfect Avrock; Thai was how he hoped to win, getting nasty punches in. Believing we would never punch him hack. But avc do not heed his squealing, do not eare lioav he is feeling, 'When the Jahherwocks got out upon his track.

They are ugly, they are slow, like a turtle they may go, But they gel there —yes, they get there in the end; Though (heir beauty doesn't dazzle, they Avill heat you to a frazzle ; They have got yon thinking hard, my Boche friend. From the earth and sea and air, every creature comes to stare At the Boojum, and to listen to its roar, Queerest thing in all creation —but there’s German consternation, When the Jahherwock goes Avaddling out to Avar. —Svdnev Sun.