THE ANZAC'S FAREWELL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 181, 9 June 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE ANZAC'S FAREWELL.

<!X LEAVING GALLIPOLI. Gyad-bye, old clmni. a hist good-bye, For we have word to up and go. We rought together, you and i. And Lord! it was .1 i;voly show ! We took our gruel with the best, Hut chucking it > hard to bear. And I could envy yo 1 your rest I'nder your little cros, up there.

Y\'i:at did we gain '.he Lug months through For such a price as you have paid, And thousands more who fell like you Tiie. gallant boys who came . . and stayed ? Not much, perhaps, in ■:■=us or ground. _ But just the sort <•; name that clings, For "Anzac," all il;,. world around Stand., for a lot < i u-vi'ui things.

\on helped to make :t, though your breath Is still for over. and vour fa mo Shall speak of high com, rillj t nf cl< a;ii fo finis. l wlio new r heard your name. Good-hyp. hut whil,- tho Turkish shells (•'all harmkvs on our vacant liner, Above this hard-iron hell of h. IK, l'"or 1110 a crimson glory " Touchstone." in tho "Dailv Ma 1."

VAX!TV TICKLED

During tho rarly excesses of the French Revo'tition a ralihle of moil were rioting jn the street: of Paris. General Laylayette appeared, and ordered a young artillery officer to open fire upon them. Tin- officer hogged tho General to lot him try to persuade them t.i withdraw. "It is useless to appeal to their reason," said tho General. "Certainly," answered the officer "However, it is not to their reason, hut to their vanity, I would appeal." The officer rode up to tho front of tin l nioh: dotfed his cocked hat, pointed to the guns and said—- " Gentlemen, will you lave the kindness to retire, for 1 am ordered to shoot down the rabble!-" The street was cleared at once, for none could brook the idea of being classed with the >( • m of the eitv.

Passenger Ca« the ship is s.'nkiim) : "Captain, is there no ho].--- —hd 1i0p.% whatever?"

Captain : "Xonont ail, my man: no hope at all." Passenger "Hang my luck! And T wouldn't eat any encumber lor dinner because I was afraid of indigestion!''