CROSS BETWEEN MOLE AND RABBIT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 236, 3 October 1916, Page 6

CROSS BETWEEN MOLE AND RABBIT.

COLONEL OF THE TUBNIXTVCTt 7 GETTING BACK TO NATURE. | 1 Lieat. Leslie May, of Wsamata Jwrth, '« writing to his sister, says:—"Last IrJT 7 day I went to town (London) to be boarded medically again. I-weak\tyiK&:~X'£ : train which doee the sixty miles to towav_-%-in an lour. I was «*iamined and another fortnight's leave. I got bads.'--| here-again in the evening, leeliag quit* 77----done. The trip knocked sewn beQt out 77 of mc, as, of course, any heart ..77; will never be as' good agam ■7r as it wa* before I left New Zea- 77 land. Ton see I have had three doses 77 of gas-poisoning (carbon-Trwrn oxide) , each 7. of increasing severity, and one lot of'"7 shell concussion. I should base reported 77/ sick, bnt kept going instead. •"There is always one picture of. toaj.7' trenches "which comes to my mind. Js>%ii-.-ture three of ns sitting ia an dug-out with six feet of and a most intense bombardment going on with as many as three abeUa a see. ; ond landing. Each moment we expected to be our last; the roof was the walls tottering, odd pieces d .stsetSfl were dying round, and toe airww ftSJ|g| of noise and acrid smoke. We had foanasjlM some, old French night-lights aad.wera industriously sKltlug them open and tas-- '"'•■' pmg the propelling charge into a heap, so that- we could whether the explosive fired by host oC: 1 detonation- "When we had month '■JtgtHK put a match on tbe heap. It fired byp_ heat, and one of us lost onr eyebrow.7_-> After a second -verifying experiment tka bombardment slackened, so -we i hsmlb out of tbe small opening,' nut quite with debris, and discovered how we were. Tbe trenches tbat bad aeeßiiifi round about were blown qinte flat. aadiigS we bad quite an interesting time ing snipers as we crawled ronnd exposedl|S places. That was how I filled in a Son- ; : ; = day afternoon instead of coin" to Sua* daySchooL e^° - One day a Staff-Colonel was giving - . ■us his opinion of m. It went as foi-.'7----lows:—'Yon tunnellers ore a sort of a "V croas between a mole and a rabbit, bst. ; = you have the temper of a badger? Tha* -3 is as far as -our personal' moc3l\ajasja| went; but for our work the aathorrtiauS have only praise. " ■_■ *" I have been doing a -very gttle boats* "' s ° ing of late as I haven't beep _____%- *_&&__ getic enough. General Richardson mc to get fit as soon as possible. aadlSil too wish to get back. War exercaMß a 7- -: great fascination on. one. It ia tun at times, and is rerr *-rrtt—- oBSaBI an aeroplane-fight I got quite as excttsaS as over a good" football match If T ~ :; less there is someone at eveiy streei corner to throw stones at mc. At tha -" front we-"get iack -to latere.- Our la*. ■ guage during a bombardment or otter ' fun gets alao 'back to Tf otm " .- of our shells „ Tri*. trenches * S,* T an odd «m, leg or otoerwiaa " *«*• * cboms •« profanity, expressive of keen pfcasnraflll up and down the line." P™ur^ -