THE CHAINED DEVIL

Southland Times, Issue 18816, 8 May 1920, Page 6

THE CHAINED DEVIL

DIGGER YARNS. WALSH ISLAND BATELESHIES. SYDNEY, April 29. Speaking of Digger humour in & public address at the Young Town HaU, Dr Long, Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, said that-one day he overheard a Digger ragging a Yank for being late into the war. . “But,” drawled the Yank, 'Yon. don’t know what we’re doing back .in the Yew Nighted States. Why, in New Y&rk we*re building a 40,000-ton boat every three months. Gee! we got the submarines right beat. Those tube can Host in three feet of wider.” The Digger seemed nonplused. ‘Yank, <fid you ever hear of Walsh Island?” he asked, at Last. “Well, at Walsh Island we’re turning oat & 50,000ton boat every .month, and it’ll float wherever the ground’s damp!” ;• On another occasion the' YjMLGA. in a rest camp had brought-over a Welsh, evangelist to stir the troops up to a realisation of eternity. He spoke of the waib and lamentations and weeping and gnashing of teeth of the eternally damned. “The Dpv-fl,” said the flatter of men, “is forever recruiting his victims. In an unguarded . moment, in the the night, when no man kmrweth, he comes to snatch yoair immortal sooL Bat, hafleInis! there is a power greater*'than the Devil. * TJie Almighty has got him chained, he can iffet (pointing to a Tbmray who stood to attention and looked sewed) —“and he cangetyou M -—< pointing tb a Jock whose Presbyterian soul failed within him as he recollected the higher catechism) —“and he can get you”-—(pointing; to a Digger leaning latily at the back df the halL “Wefl,” came the sleepy voice of: the Digger, ■ seems to toe *thit- the dam thing nnghtjuatao wdi bc kkwe!”