EROS BEFOULED
I wandered into the Mental Hospital, or rather a hothouse-with .. ML ’’Mental Ward” over the door. There were the poor fellows - some had' great lumps under their chins - their eyes were leaden - their -.faces puffed, & their bellies ?- very bare. One poor fellow was holding great lumps of flesh. He had ?. a pitiful tale. He was the victim of vindictive malice. ... This was the tale. • He was a serjeant - a serjeant among serjearits - one who roused the envy of his fellows -.’a Spurious Lartius amongst many false Sexti. . - One bright tropical day when the sun was at its zenith and flying . fish were spouting in the lacelike spray of deep blue sea, this poor 'o' innocent'-Was lured into the... swimming .pool. ’ ' /He stood on the slippery' verge & plunged - deep & ; long into the cool scum of the pool. 'Like attendants at Hades goat riding,, his gpfl embryo tormentors lined up on the four sides of the pool. '-The lithe body shot: through the green ooze - then up, like a spirit seeking/ the) ? . sublime, it rose. ' , /. -?.:??'• ■ . ". -.? ’ ' Splash J A dozen hate-ridden devils. flung themselves upon him. ■ They kicked him where it hurt. . They took the poor boy to the hospital, &' there he lay, holding his mump So At least, that is his story.
THE 19th ARMY TROOPS COY . . ' .• (Words & music by Sjt H Jacks) '• " . ... ... • * The 19th Army Troops Coy ' - • ' Goes on into the fight. •• - The 19th Army Troops Coy Goes on for what is right ..■•••- (Chorus) We are the boys from far away New Zealand’s happy shore,a And always cheerful ■ always gay We’ll do?, what'was done before.lF New Zealand Engineers we are And soldiers true and. brave,.' ' ' . ■ .. Sent by our folk sc dear and far O’er ocean and its waves./ And Hitler and his evil gang We’ll send deep into hell, And Goering,. Goebels, high , ’ll hang " ' ; ' With Himmler there as well ' ? ".
Who was the marksman who neatly, threw a basket of tins down the funnel of the water boat? And who, with a bit of string with a can •. on the end hooked onto the water boat’s whistle, & tried to knock out a tune? • <
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Serial Waves, Volume 2, Issue 3, 23 September 1940, Page 2
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