ANOTHER BUBBLE PRICKED

NZ Truth, Issue 578, 15 July 1916, Page 5

ANOTHER BUBBLE PRICKED

They said that we were soakers and we couldn't raise an "arm," Unless to fill ourselves with "ink" or pints of brewers' barm; But our Colonel says he knows us, and no single man's a rottei" — He is (but not one lad of his), as Wowsers say, a "Potter."

For we know our good behavior and we know the time to stop, We're not like school -kids on a tram, or m a pastry shop; This is the logic he employs, and like this he'll discant it, "If you should like a glass or two, well, take it if you want it."

He knows that he can trust his men, at • homo or In the fray, When fighting for the Wowiert' rights, m Alsace, far away. The Wowser's gassy drinks and cant can't change his manly views. And though they irritate * bit, they certainly amus».