As You Were
UCH water has flowed under bridges since 1914-1918. In those times girls were still shysome of them-but Khaki ‘boys vi were pretty much then as now. I remember, one day about midway in the Great War, my service duties took me walking down an unfrequented lane somewhere in England. I was enjoying the temporary escape from people and traffic when round a curve swung a company of young soldiers in charge of a juvenile officer. They wete marching along quietly, but, catching sight of me, the officer gave a sharp order and the men broke instantaneously into a lusty rendering of "The parson is waiting for me and my gal,’ and every man of that company, as he passed, rolled a pair of glad eyes at me. Was I embarrassed? Khaki boys are Khaki boys still, but in these latter days girls
can take it.
M.H.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 112, 15 August 1941, Page 42
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150As You Were New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 112, 15 August 1941, Page 42
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