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Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 7, 5 February 1944, Page 3

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BROODING round the Service Lines the other morning, 1 saw Gordon Berry get a shock when ho looked into ” Butch’s” tent and saw somethin’ lyin’ on top,,, of his clothes. Reckon ho shouldn’t leave things like that lyin’ about, ’cos people come into a tent before a chap wakes up 0 * But I guess I saw mo id ’n that on DM day night, at the dance tryln’ to keep up. with them’ fast we ill n .Sappers® Course all them small rooms in the I. B* block spoilt me style and was in the ; Sapporo and Corporal favour. Those whs nd lights si ths when X kdekeA i&to them small cubby holes so that I couldn’t see who it wua doin’ all tin cuddlin’ * Reckon ” Doctor rhe H and Itot had their share of it. Thnn there was that* tall, skinny Corporal whoso always Wdin* ho doh’t have nothing to do with wcncn, but who always yays to ’em and goes the big way with tho Drench sheilas* Say, did you see these little Drench girls at the neo, X saw young’ Oro ska r y an’ Compt on and’ -Darroc& doin’ a heavy line, but I roakon the language barrier was too muah for them* ■Kourd Croaker y say he’d like to take one of girls and chow her the cubby hole, but ho didn’t know how to ask. Hn COURS® Claude Bo wo was on a fuss, oven though hie gal from tho tailor’s. to wasn t thoro. Ke doe® a lot of kiddin’, dees our Claude. x Hoard n V/aac any to him one day - 51 If you ever want anything Corporal, Just let ms know, and -I’ll rjca what X can do far you’,’ Site man soon sewin’ o r ironing * I hope i Hope so,’cos Claude is a decent bloke .ns LOT of mud around on Friday night* You know ” Fat Willie h Hurt? Well, ho get stuhk in the mud on Mow ay to the dance and he ws so exhausted he had to loan against tho doorway near Ml night i ‘ho looked awful pale and sick at times# Jimmy Woods was a bit that way too* Only ha staggered and his voice want all funny* Course h,c had Joe Fox to look after him. Oliff Burns was vary

rod in the face too - tho rain must have boon basting down on him. Ropka.n some of the other lads ; didfteue elbow bending earjer - ' cisea so they wouldn’t got outs practice with.the pick and shovel* Y’ know the way some ci’ these old married coves got round the- floor on Friday night makes mo think the Kiwi *aint got so much to • loarn© They kid a chap like mo that they are different from other . guy a « and damme , I pearly jfcll for it© After the war, thin I’ll write a book on 11 How Kiwis Make Love I' reckon I could sell it to the Yanks. :n SAW you Bill Stokes from the Chaplain’s Office, at Bth* Gen® enjoying hdmslof. - . wasn’t too slow either. Course ho can talk- about books qnd politics, and other highfalutin things, but he ’aint too. siW. BGya from 353rd enjoyed themselves too, Reckon it .Was a good idea i-nvititft the lads over, ?n VSRN Bigge ’ ' < trust© had a good time at the dame* — saw him smilin’ away to him - self in the" boot shop all Sat* morning® Couldn’t -find out what it was, thought Like to know who it was the boys, disturbed .in a cuddle when they camo over for ths plates, Kind;?, broke up ths romance. Didn’t see much of • Sttsart who 1 camo down for the dance. Reckon Ik was kinda busy* ltd a him say ho likes at the Con Depot. ’Spas': wo’ll all be gain’ up there soon. Reckon it ’ll ba. good up in the bush® :?$ Say, the other day I was in at Transit Camp and , on lookin’ in at George icing’s tent 1 saw sheets oh his bed, a pillowslip and loto of sissy things Huve to keep an eye on some of thuslads. - ■ i 1 .