SNOPPINGS .....

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 14, 13 September 1943, Page 5

SNOPPINGS .....

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4 here i am chaps, had n. hoc of a time getting down® everybody was so busy looking after themdelves i was ignored, one look rt oharlia rye was enough to keep mo well away from him. * * * i managed to sneak into the cab with lin and norm matthews a thought 1 was set, but when tho lorrie went off tho road lin got such a scare ho shook no much i had to get out. i hoofed back to camp, camo down next day on the, back of Charlie’s motor bike, it was good, but i was afraid he gas going on to ths ” pink house ? * * * he got the notion at hourail on Saturday night when.he and two other sgts. had dinner at the pub therej he .had a fair load of’‘plonk’, 1 of ebnree* so did the others, but char, didn’t carry his o * *

talking of carrying reminds me of the big salvage job, basil raurgp.troyd did on Wednesday. hear about it ‘I ho was doing his squatting exercises when ha heard a dull

thud below him. didn’t pay much attention to it. then ha did a b&t of quick think - ing. 11 gad, sir.» v/ my bill fold » that made him move. i was having a leak against a nearby tree, ’coe i cant reach up to the phono, that’s how i saw it all. what basil didn’t say wasn’t worth repeating, he didn’t mention coot, dark’s name, but he did say some dreadful things about the , products of thoWOB'X’S CONCRETE COY. ns he gazed htlow at the fl 5 dollars. * * ♦ now basil is not one to give ...five dollars.... in easily, ho tried with a long stick, with String on r stick, 'with wire & -a pin, and finally, ■ with a combination of them all he retrieved his the ~15 dollars

and the bill fold his Sunday school teacher gave him. doing up his trousers, he made for the river where he washed his poss - . - ess-ions 0* * * * * the-wallet now hangs in the 11 old wan'd “ office ; the •15 dollars? he converted into

bon’. can g’Vsss what th? heir wa;» converted into. * * * before i forget* you ’•’ill be glad tn learn that i «r» going to visit the- n pink house ” one day next week, co i ; hhll be obi to toll you all about it.... that is th.-se of you who do not know, i heard Vat th* welfare officer was thinking of arranging for a. -arty of n.c.o*B to go -own very soon, some of the lade dent like tho ide-, they reckon there i. too much organising in tho army.. * * ♦ did you notice how agitated the ” black tracker * was lost Saturday night? i overheard him spy, t- w i bet you they dont succeed « and ho kept asking : n arc they back yet?, i couldn’t figgur* it out, till i discovered ho was referring to a small party of officers '-'ho had gone to visit..... ( sorry, censor wont allow names ) anyway, the h blueV tracker ” was left out. he cure was sore* * T< - * before finish i think i had hotter spy i like this place,, and we(re going to have sone fun. keep it cleans