Slice of Life in a Canteen
ON rush nights, it is no unusual thing to find half a dozen of the men behind the canteen hatch helping the girls to wash up, peel potatoes, open tins of beans, toast slices of bread, and so on. The fun starts, of course, when they get a handful of
men from the wilds of Yorkshire or Westmorland drifting in, speaking in broad dialect, or a couple of cheery Cockneys using rhyming slang — only really understood by the Cock-ney-and asking for a pot of Nancy Lee, or a nice pair of Jack the’ Rippers-tea and kippers, of course. Then, just to
St ake tees ~ " add to the confusion, a Lancashire lad will stroll in demanding a "boottered boon," to say nothing of a few Free French, a Pole or two, and some Czechs, all speaking very broken English very quickly.("Proud Service: Canteen Worker," 2YA, December 17.) | —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 5
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152Slice of Life in a Canteen New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 5
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