The Drilling Dominie.

Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 720, 18 April 1914, Page 9

The Drilling Dominie.

-{Suggested by several strenuous but enjoyable days' work in the Teachers' Physical Training Camp at Lower Hutt.) It was eight bells ringing And the sausages were done, ■ .And the orderlies were bringing In the dishes one by one; It was eight bells ringing And the orderlies were bringing 'Chops and sausages, and flinging Down the dishes one by one. •Oh 1 to get some porridge steaming, It is rare! It is rare! Oh! to see enough spoons gleaming, Still more fare! Still more rare! How to get some porridge steaming, And to see enough spoons gleaming, • 3s the thing that we are scheming As we sit and ponder there. : It was noontide ringing And the morning was done. To his pipe each man was clinging, It enhanced the rest he'd won; It was noontide ringing, To his pipe each man was clinging, But with form alert for springing For the mess-tent, on the run. .There'll be some without a plate, boys, Plates are rare! Plates are rare! "There'll be none if you are late, boys, So be there! So be there! There'll be some without a plate, boys, You'll be one, if you are late, boys; But we'll all share in the wait, boys, And inhale the. fine fresh air. There's a square meal looming At the setting of the sun, How its phantom odours fuming Make us eager to be done: There's a square meal looming, How its phantom odours fuming Make us yearn for home and grooming, "When the long day's drill is done. When the sunset breezes shiver, We'll be there! We'll be there!

Though we get a. touch of liver We don't care! We don't care 1 When the sunset breezes shiver And. the 'bus comes o'er,the river, Though we overtax our liver, We'll be there!. We'll be there 1 Robert J. Pope. Kaiwarra.