HUMOURS OF TRAINING.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13732, 22 March 1915, Page 2

HUMOURS OF TRAINING.

"Don't you wait to get a dry place, s old son," he yells to the "nut" who does not care to get down in the mud.

"Head and eyes erect there, you blokes at the "back," is the next remark. "All these exercises is good for you—helps to nuturalise your food, and takes away your superfl'us flesh."

"Steady, men." (iti is the dulcet tones* of the major this time); "don't bulge, come round like a wall." But the raucous voice of the sergeant comes in with the last order: "AH them wot ain't had their third shirt come down to the oomney awns at 2.&0." he yells as they disperse; "they're lumberin* up my room."

Back they all trooped to the drill on the downs after the Christmas holidays. Keener than ever to get to the front they are, with the one idea of doing their bit for Britain. For months the\ have been perfecting themselves in the science of warfare, and soon they will prove their worth on the battileSelds across the Channel/ The looker-on— barred, ineligible—can only envy them, and say "Good luck! 1'