HERO OF HOGAN'S BAR.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVIIII, Issue 450, 18 November 1916, Page 3

HERO OF HOGAN'S BAR.

The guests WCJO; ihcro dip ! ped down, To sample lie- landlord's sto-.-k; rh-'tr cars w-ei c ihriih'd l»y a !i-!it- . r's t:ii.-, Though iiieir -yes wee' on the .-look. li was Private iroiihark h-el i I'll oo r. As he toid of thy strife afar. And each of the listeners drank th■health

Of lhe le-ro of Hog-all's bar. 'Twa.s at Suez,' In- said, in the m>rt.i ■ol France, Tjiat i;lieir hardest light. I'egan. For the Turks, with the 1 . Kaibcv liimseif in charge, Outnumbered from tea to one. He told the talc, o'f <<• fe r ''t'a.t assa'.iii. But he hadn't, pushed it. far, AYhcii someone sh.aited a pint ; 'f 'i e■• For the hvro of Ib'gan's far.

lie was right Hank man to Bmsiloff, And sirotting- for .CapUiin Cook, When the Frenchmen charged tho Lc inberg forts, And the Jjosplhorus was. took. He was four times wounded and .six times misled, As lie strove H.eV i-ns-i to .-dmn. And was often (IR'iel a D. 5.0,, Hul. he had no use-. for them. He cursed Uiu Germans from head k h e :.'l, l-'or ilie iou'-d-wu tricks they used. And no one, d<mbie,;l! a. word he, said Though his campaigns wi-tv «'<mfused. He took them next- t<> the (.'arso "Where-. Ihiei maimed an armoured car Then tlwa landlord whisFl9">d "Six o'ciock!'' To the 'ho.ro of Hogan's har. —Australasian. ' \ ' ' •