SNOOPER
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DUNNO what the ” Cid Man ” thought when he looked into the Rec. Hut on Saturday morning after the Smoke Concert on Friday- night •-» with all them chicken bones, biscuts, cheese and empty beer./ bottles it sure looked like -a
tangi had been under way. ;::::
.<-..CURSE the proper place to look round was the. tent lines when- the chaps was tryin 1 to get out of bed on Saturday "morning, I heard s/M Mitchinsbri .sayin’ that he never
s. i v such a bunch of ” Sad Sacks ” in his life be orc* ::: Can’t say what I v/us like me self, but I wasn’t as bad as Ernie 'Clark or "Boogie Woogi’c ” Southcombo who were headaches ahead of me. Ant • I didn’t sell out as early as” Stewie"
Paul who snrt of had the excuse that he had been on piquet all Thursday night and was sleepy, not drunk. : ’Sposc you chaps noticed S/M., Mite hi ns on - only . time I’ve seen him lookin’ real happy since he’s been on the island was when he was finishin* his last bottle - looks like he f or'.got . all about " heme ”• Next time we hold a smoke concert I reckon Alex Bow* man bughta be put on the official programme, ’cos he was; doin' the
highland fling unofficially at one end of the hall an.* tough on ’the chops at the other end who was strainin’ to see- what he was doin’ •
LOOKS like you chaps is-gettin 1 ready to move * reckon thatSs the -U ~ „ 4 4 ~ 4- ...
Cause for all the excitement. :: j I was pretty excited me sc If the other day when I overheard the ” Old Man ” sayin’ : ” I must get that young Snooper home with us
somehow; we might as well have him with us at because Dozer-
dust ■ will get going wh-:n wo are settled in . Mafic me feel pretty good to know I was goin’ with you chaps. Particularly when I heard you are goin’ to India fori a year or two*. W e ll fellas, I’ll be seein you in N.K. Keep it clean.
THIS IS NOT A HOMY ISSU73,
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Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 23, 5 August 1944, Page 3
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354SNOOPER Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 23, 5 August 1944, Page 3
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