TOMMY ANZAC'S LITTLE JOKE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3118, 23 June 1917, Page 2

TOMMY ANZAC'S LITTLE JOKE

PUSHING A BORROAVED PIiAM. Why a soldier wheeling -a perambulator with a baby is it should cause a crowd to collect and roar with laughter is a, riddle for the higher typo of intelligence (says 'the London "Daily Chronicle"). But recently in tho Strand <a crowd gazed with unconscious amusoment at a sturdy Anzae pushing a pram, without a suiila on his face. A woman walking close by, uneasily translated her anxious expression when eho said that tho child wa3 hers, and tho soldier had paid her for "a-shovin'- of it." Tho baby was enjoying tho fun, and when, opposite tho Law Courts, about 20 Anzacs "mounted guard," tho crowd grew so thick that tho inevitable policeman strolled across with Riot Act written large on his countenance.

This Anzac is well known for his stunts , . One of his comrades told mo that ho nearly caused a fatal accident. Our Oversea laddie tried the old dodge of solemnly staring at a particular point in tho sky. Others followed, and the power of suggestion caused every head to be craned towards a low-lying cloud. There was oven a suggestion of Zeppelins from one obsessed individual. Thero was a stoppage of traffic; two 'buses were tide by side, full on top. The little conduc-' torette, gazing with tho rest, stumbled <,-ith tho sudden jerk, aud nearly toppled over. Tho causo of the trouble was discreet, as ho saw what might easily have been a tragedy turned to comedy, and everybody looking shyly at tho other as the culprit.