TRADE USAGE.
Bad times had struck the great perfesh. i'oor Horace Biggs had bust his boot "While coking for a "shop." A mesh Mis trousers were. He longed for fresh And greener fields where ho might shoot • At bigger game and liopo for loot. Me sought the depot out. and thereHe off or: d for a soldier true. His length W2s right, his chest was fair; Some of his teeth were as they were; Has eyes were good; his toes were, too. They • housrh+. that on the whole he'd do. For camp they said that Biggs must start And drill a while, and learn to bear H.'s rifle like a noble heart That soon must act the hero's part. " But first," he said, " mny 1 infer You pay me for rehearsals, sir? 1 ' in the "Bulletin."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11505, 29 September 1915, Page 4
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136TRADE USAGE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11505, 29 September 1915, Page 4
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