PUKEKOHE WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 118, 8 December 1915, Page 3

PUKEKOHE WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND.

£. s. d. Previously acknowledged 420 U 0 JBB 10 0 Total 421 1 0

It was a quiet game of poker, and lkey, happy in the possession of three queens, had opened the jack-pot. Gradually, when the betting began, the others fell out, leaving lkey, who had added one other queen t6 his list 10 the "draw," and the quiet American, who had come in and taken three cards. For some time the betting went ahead steadily, the Yank quietly confident, lkey equally confident, tbough puzzled. Still the betting rose. At last:—"l will see you," from lkey. "Vat have you got?"—" Four kings," drawled the U.S.A. man. "What have you?"— lkey passed a weary band across bis forehead, "I've got a headache!" he murmured.

They were two real "sports," and loved to put a little bit on anything and everything. They were in the same company and got knocked out at the same time by the same shell. They lay side by aide in their cots in the base hospital, and the news was gently broken to them that they were both "going west."—"Say, Bill," said one.— "What oh, chummy," came faintly from the other bed.—"Are you booked Bill?"—"Yus, Tommy, How's it with you, Tommv?""Sime as you Bill; but I say, chummy," and tbe voice got fainter and fsioter, "when we get—to the other side—l'll fly you tor arf a dollar!"