HOSPITAL HUMOUR.
Excellent stories from the hospitals and trenches arc lo he found in “Happy Though Wounded,” the book of the Third London General Hospital, which has just been published. The following are typical stories: Private Blank, having been discharged, goes back to his ward to bid farewell to the sister. “Well, good-bye, sister. I can’t thank you for all your kindness; but if ever there was a Fallen Angel, it’s yon!” In connection with a “certain little creature which, because of our new familiarity with life in Hie dugouts, has become so “domesticated” that allusions to its existence are no longer “improper,” a good story is told: — A Cockney Tommy, whoso bools were dropping off, called to a friend in the neighbouring trench, and the following dialogue ensued; — “Got any lices over there?” “Garn! We’re a clean trench, we arc.” “I don’t mean lousy liecs; I mean boot lices.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1736, 2 October 1917, Page 4
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150HOSPITAL HUMOUR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1736, 2 October 1917, Page 4
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