THE IMPERIAL TOMMY AND COLONIAL TROOPER.
FAST FRIENDS.
If the Imperial "Tommies" had just at first treated our "cornstalks" to a little "side' 'it would not have particularly surprised me. But a few turns to with or without the gloves m which "Mr Horsetralian" "" gave Tommy ; "beans" would have cleared the air. As i a matter of fact the extraordinary j hand mess of the colonists —whether fighting", or scouting or camping, or washing or cooking—amazed our ignorant cockney and country Tommies straight off. They spring', most of them, from townfolk (who fU'P "done for" by their womeiikind or i% bawacks) and the "real handy man" [is a. mystery to them. They speedily, ; however, discovered (as did everybody about) the utility of learning^utfzens of bush expedients, and now v.^ colonist writes me) it is "quite funny to see the "haAv-ha.w" English" troopers' .being good-naturedly -'barracked.'' by 1 our dear old chaps."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 13 March 1900, Page 5
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