MENTAL ARMOUR

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13135, 6 November 1914, Page 3

MENTAL ARMOUR

m&i&W &!AH];#ni^ X%W^W^mmo^oM ';®§l3?!|l#ii®!l^ mmmk 'An i'long'fiw t'jrou i kcop i excited, ,:tlipvo ; » n'otlililg'flt'aH can lulib, 1,1 JJ " .Tjiougii a*niincii thaVyour point ' Ims senl; you llat <liif ; |' Romcjmbormg; Gunboat's; gtojjr.vof'; ; <■!«!• Inan with tho punctmoil hoiut, _ '^o)»potTthnt^ialbrulsc^^^^ ,' ciuiHO you tho slightest smart; .Whl'lo • the"crowd koops -.pn jhoorooingj -;. ■< Acljilies ivitliout' tho 1 hofll, And' all: your opponent's-doing! is noth- ■ ing .that* jW can fool. 1 ;

woul, what a grand example, .wheii * Gjinboal'goes to war, ~ .Will by the Bplondid sample of j "tho man nho uovfcr gols sole;. 'UVhen tho ilnapnel sciaps aio snapping ' an a"im oi snippmg an cat (There's a,line that will catch you l nap- »' ping, if you've looked too long on --tho beei),

A.' foot or a flippor flying, tho boxei nevor will miss—ror avo leckon that Gunboat's not lying, when he tells us a tale hko this— The Germans mil gape in, wonder at the > maivollons Biffißrigade, On whom their artillery's thunder no - soil of impics9ion has mndo. Can you pieturo old Gunboat yelling in | 1 fionl of tho squad lift led, With only the iPd blood welling wheie ho used lo cany his head, As eago'i for light as evoi, and knocking '-I tho Gonnaiis Hat? '> '| In the 1 heat of tho moment he'd nevei , bo ni)Rsing a Hung hko that; I Uloan into tho Oeininn tionehes ho'd '

ennv the chnigo with vim, And how Mould the Tommies and Fionchics swaim aftci a man hko him, Whoso legs would never Rtop running, though bv enoiny sholls they woio pilledAnd what is tho good of gunning at men «lio foigot thoy aio killed? N

We'll get him to teach the army that's tiaining at Aldeishot The doctime, "Nothing can haim mo, < so long as my blood is hot"; No niattei whnt guns have thundered, thcic ißii't a moital foo Would have one chance in a bundled whclc Gunboat's lcgiments go. Rill Boggits and all his gloiy, and i Ilcnnkait out in his cai, Will fade dean out ot the stoiy, wheie his stout stouslimeichants are; > i The woul amII go to tho K.usei of tho Allied Voices led B\ a sort ot a human gcuer, who dopaii'-t Know when, lie'a dend ' '* a' ' —Sidney Hun.