THE PRICELESS TOMMY.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 133, 20 May 1926, Page 1

THE PRICELESS TOMMY.

A CLUBMAN’S STORIES. Sir Theodore Cook, a distinguished clubman, tells some enjoyable stories in his capital record of sport and life, which has been accorded a cordial welcome. One of the best is given on the authority of Mr. Basil Williams, and relates to an incident in the Boer War. It seems that Mr. Williams had led his platoon to take a Boer position, and was talking to one of his wounded men in hospital afterwards. The soldier described what happened as they rushed the last rise. “I’d no sooner got over than I saw a Boer lying down and slipped my bayonet into ’im just as ’e fired at me. So there we both was. After a bit I says to him, * ’Ave you ’ad any breakfast?’ I says, and passes ’im a biscuit. 1 Allymakty, ’ he says, in his funny lingo, and ’ands me up ’is flask. So I drank it thankful, and there we was as comfortable as I might be, couldn’t move, you under- | stand, but quite comfortable, when up comes the stretcher-bearers, and I’m j hirs* lf.*hov didn’t boo-jn to carry 'im j off one way and me the other. So J j t-,~ j o-it -it »pr/l, f»'o ono T could wo • you understand, and I says, ‘Well, good-b3 r e,’ I says, ‘and thank Gaw.l we met!’ ’ ’