WEEKLY WHO'S ZOO:

Gun Flash, Issue X, 6 March 1943, Page 1

WEEKLY WHO'S ZOO:

WICKSTEED, Barton® Born 1911, out of Temper by Grogg® Known to Wee .King!, Mandy, and Humpy, .as "Wickey”. CHURCH: Ardent and devoted Buddhist® Known to worship' at shrine of Bacchus - otherwise irreligious. HABITS: Is an Aesthete - admires bottle shapes « and those of American Burses, or any 'other-femininity, in company with others* Owing to a mined smattering og Kipling and Indian games, acquired by his love of Poona, evoked a new diversion* Transformed a water tank into a palatial hostelry, titled it from a fusion of polo and literature ~ named, appropriately enough, "Chukka Din"® Reckless driving of peeps© {While smoking a cigarette, drove from R,H*Q ? to R.AAF in 1 minute 14 seconds dead « a redord®) Taking o. keen interest in welfare and working hours of I-T.Z* Hur sing Division® DERIVATION OF NAME: Old Anglo Saxon (from ‘ Goths, Visigoths, Jutes, Ropesend, Mangel-Wurzel Chou Hollier, and Rape); ViTYICS Dl©: either a sardonic commer. tary of the. times on his ancestors l habits, or due to the said ancestors ! menial task of replacing snuffed candles, and re«® placing them with the lordly comment ”WICK I 3 DEAD”/ BOOKS: "From. Rye to Red Label”: ’’Waggons I have been on”; "Me and the Brig*”; ’’Moose calls at Morn”; ’’Geniuses I have dealt-with’’® I Compiled several pamphlets *♦ ’’French without words”; "intercourse sans Verbiage”; ."Full Riggers That Have Gunk With Me”® FEATURES: Looks timid at firstbglance® True strength is shown when demonstrating that discipline must be maintained - then intimidating® (Vide: Kin reiterated statement: "My Sergeants are the same as I"®) CLUBS: Thistle;‘Royal Tiger; Terminus; Grand; Midland; G O P O II C ; Occidental; (for other's, see any Hotel Directory)® FAVOURITE SAYINGS; ”B- my eyeballs”; ’’By Gad”; ”23 days F«R O March cut* 1 *

TO THS EDITOR : A R3®(M TO YOUR ’’CALL TO ACTION” L* cur tho provea ion, That drives mo into verso, •L live in aon tarnation ? Fox 1 my rhyme are growing worse. My errant muse doth toko tho bun, The way she makes tho feet to run, \ I*d better atop, or fere I’m done, Decent folk myself would shun. ■/ ■ ■ . • ■ For if I try her foot to guide, To rhyme s all Handsome, High & wide, Tho fickle jade doth start mo slide, In traitorous path to gloom I glide. But, leave hex* to her own device, She changes then, and in a tries, She*ll give you something really nice, With withand humour and maybe spioo®