SAM JOINS UP

Arawa Guerilla, Issue 16, 1 July 1943, Page 13

SAM JOINS UP

Here is the verse made famous by “Sam” in “Splitzkrieg II.” The delay in publishing it was due to the fact that Sam was a bit sluggish in handing it over to us. The other day when I got ’ome, I chuckled with great glee, I ’ad been left a letter; It were from His Majesty I opened it with trembling ’and, But what’s this? —• Man alive! You are ’ereby called in ballot Twenty-one to forty-five. Me bottom lip ’ung on me chest, When I read fateful line: You must report to so and so At such and such a time. “By Gum I said, but went along And joined the ruddy queue, And there I answered questions, Numbers one to seventy-two. The first test were in bottle; It proved strongly alkaline, And then they stripped me to the waist And looked at me behind; The tape round chest showed thirtyone, Expanded thirty-two, Me ’eight were six feet to the inch ■ 'And weight just eight stone two. They found me teeth were rotten And throat were red and sore; There were signs of ’igh blood pressure, An’ I ’ad flat feet, what’s more. They said, “Sam, you’d best be careful, You ’ave bronchial cough, you know.” And then they jumped me up and down To find me ’eart were low. , At this stage I felt really bad, And then came test for eyes, And when I couldn’t read top line, They nodded ’eads — clockwise. I thought I must be dying, And that last hour ’ad come, Until they shook me ’ard an’ said: “Good luck, Sam! Grade One!” — Stan Longworth. Copyright, No. 4149. * * * We understand that P.B.P.’s Channing and Carter gave a two-man P.T. Gymkhana for the people of Hamilton.