HIS "LITTLE BIT."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 24 February 1916, Page 2

HIS "LITTLE BIT."

i I Three men, one a soldier returned, from Gallipoli, another an Army Medical Corps man, and the third a discharged soldier, were talking on the Trentham railway platform. "Well, they've discharged me." said the man in civilian clothes. "I've been two months in camp this time, and two j months in the Eighth Reinforcements, ' and I got as far as Egypt in the Main '< Force." j ''What was wrong?" he was asked. : "I got crook on the. transport," he j replied, "and was sent back sick. | Well, I've done my bit, I suppose." "You have, right enough," said the returned man. "I was in Egypt myself," he added. "What did you come back for?" asked the discharged man. The other raised a mutilated right hand. "Two fingers blown off, a bullet in my .shoulder, and a silver plate in my head," he said. "Quite enough, don't you think?" His friends agreed that it was— quite.