WHY BE MISERABLE?
I cannot really se 0 how we’re going to help win a Avar that Lord Kitchener believes will last-from three years upwards (says “DownAvriter” in the “Bystander”), and which I myself oslieA'e will last thirty on and off. by, making ourselves dem’d miserable. As I read my paper, Tommy Atkins has gone to the war in anything but the spirit of a martyr going to the stake. He has gone, singing his favourite ditty, to “have a pot at the sausages,” and on not a single face either going out or coming homo wounded have I seen anything else but the expression of the Tommy Atkins of peace-time. Why, if the men wh'o’re actually fighting are keeping cool, should those who, for various reasons, aren’t yet fighting-, be expected to assume the air of a dying duck in a, thunderstorm looking In the darkness for a peace Pumpernickel bread that isn’t there?
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 222, 7 June 1915, Page 3
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155WHY BE MISERABLE? Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 222, 7 June 1915, Page 3
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