HERO OF HOGAN’S BAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1642, 25 November 1916, Page 4

HERO OF HOGAN’S BAR.

The guests were there as the sun dipped down, To sample the landlord's stock; Their oars were thrilled hy a lighter’s tale, Though their eyes were on (he clock. It was Private Ironhark held the iloor, As he (old of the strife afar, And each of the listeners drank the health Of the hero of Hogan’s liar. ’Twas at Suez, he said in the north of Franee, That their hardest light began, For the Turks, with the Kaiser himself in charge, Outnumbered them ten lo one. He told the tale of a great assault, But he hadn't pushed it far. When someone shouted a pint of beer For the hero of Hogan’s liar. He was right think man to Brn.-iloff, And spotting for Captain Cook, When the Frenehman ebarged the Lemberg forts, And the Bosphorus was took. He was four times wounded and six times missed, As ho strove their rush to Mem, Ami was often offered a H. 5.0., But he had no use for them. He enrsod the Germans from head to heel For the low-down tricks they used, And no one doubted a word he said, Though his campaigns wore confused. He took them next to the Carso heights, Where he manned an armoured ear — Then the landlord whispered, “Six o'eloek!” To the hero of Hogan’s bar. —Australasian.