"SLEEPY HOLLOW"

Gun Flash, Issue XXII, 29 May 1943, Page 2

"SLEEPY HOLLOW"

Recently th© fields and paddocks od Sleey Hollow have boon the scene of feverish activity. Hitherto little known members haves overnight, blossomed into champion exponents of the noble arts cf self-defence - and gaily skip, dance, and perform staminizing exercises to reach that goal of atheletes - fitness for battle . • Normally calm and peaceful faces have assumed a decidedly, pugnacious aspect, with various persons proudly . displaying a split lip here, or a black eye there. Groups of very determined looking men are seen everywhere, men carrying boxing gloves, men carrying wrestling gear, and often, men carrying men. Business at' the R.A.P. has reached, a new high as nlokes totter in to have their faces patched, bones nebded or muscles pounded back into shape. This horrible zest for exercise has spread even to the -cookhouse, where one of the cooks, in a few short days has built up such a reputation for ferociousness that all his cooking is now praised, and even in some cases, eaten* Such phrases as ’’Who the blue-black so-and-so cooked this — meat”- he should be made to eat the lot”, have disappeared entirely, and in their place faint echoes .of praise wander respectfully round. the mess hall. As this cook.can (so I tis rumoured) with a scientific twist of his dislocate a spinal column, this politeness, so foreign to cooks in general, can be easily understood. What caused this sudden uprising of pugs and-bruisers? Is it that food for fighters ”Cilly Conk” • causing the brute to come out in these usually timorous souls? Or can it be that having no other means of expending their energy (leave to town being stopped , and the Pink House being closed anyway) these muscle bround mountains of meat use it up in attempting to flatten, squash, ot otherwise alter the shape . pf the faces and bodies of their equally ferocious (over)

Enough’, Lot us, as members of a 'battery honoured and respected throughout the length and breadth of this island for its talent for doing nothing with the least effort, unite as one man in a "Grand Anti-Activity Movement" and suppress these foolhardy gents who are so recklessly destroying our reputation* (BOND). LoU.J.