SNOOPINGS BY SNOOPER

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 13, 26 March 1944, Page 3

SNO OPINGS BY SNOOPER

WELL, fellas, the other night I was snoopin’ round one of. the camps in the Valley and was just co min ’ home when a command car came bearin’ down on me. I scooted for one of the barracks and hid -behind a rubbish can. Dash mo if the car didn’t' pull up at the side of : the building where I was hidin’. I lay pretty low, I Can tell ya o The driver hopped out and went inside - heard’ him shoutin’ and a lot of gabbin’ goin’ 'on. Then out he came with a blanket

and chopped into the car again. Then all the chaps came out, some doin’ up their trousers and some just in their singlets and underpants.feet thing I heard was the chap inside the car talk, in’ to a woman. Guess that made me cock me ears. Dunno what they said, but when the yappin’was over, the chap hopped out of -- the car and said to. the. blokes" Line

there fellas andhave your dollar ready 2 Say, J began to feel a bit nervy; that was a bit of a shock to a little fella like me. Anyway the men lined up just 4 like they ‘was goj.n’ for chow. Thqy got in one side of the car and hopped out the - other* Made things quicker than .the chow line. I was right behind the rubbish can and listened - couldn’t

'■ see much ’ cos of the . dark. But I heard the. bloke who was in hhargo call out “ smoko ” or sons thing like it, 'cos the dame had a spell while she smoked a cigarette. It was then I heard the chaps sayin’ they wasn’t too. pleased with the dame, because she . yawed in their faces which was takin’ to be very bad form, Guess it was too, ladies don’t usually yawn in a man’s face. When I was a kidd I was taught to put me handle over me South when. I yawned; maybe ' this dame didn’t have one. Kit the chaps didn’t stop ’ co. s of her yawnin’, though srme went real crook when she started to sigh, as though she’d lost interest in the '; ■ proceedin’s. I aint never seen .Hollywood damcP fonder them conditions, and I guess them chaps ’aint either, but I guess th-.y dont sigh and yawn, When the last of the fifty blokes had hopped int and out of the car

I heard the driver say he’d have to take the dame back to Noumea and

drop her on the sidewalk - and the last I saw of ’em was him doin’ up his pants with one hand and work! the gears with the other. Say, was I glad to get back to camp 1 Keep it clean »