BITS AND PIECES

Blue Light, Volume 1, Issue 2, 12 December 1940, Page 4

BITS AND PIECES

Picked Up By the Ambulance BY SNOW WHITE. Illustrating the way in which a certain Sergeant overworks his only adjective, • one of our former parsons in the Ambulance parodied: — You’re a lovely squad of'■ lovely fellows. If you don’t lovely well get your lovely feet out of the lovely way I’ll, lovely well'give you all a lovely fatigue! **- * * Bright note introduced by one .of our officers, who has thoughtfully pasted a piece of paper inside his cap: “Like hell it’s yours. Put it down.” * * * * An officer’s definition of a strong man: One who can crush a : mosquito between two stones. *•*. * • * The rumour that we are downhearted must be regarded with suspicion, as unanimous loud cries of No! greet any such insinuation. •■-J/"' * * * * Padre to delinquent soldier: “Drunk again!” Soldier: “So am I.” * * * * A new. Army fashion was established by a quartermaster sergeant the other Sunday afternoon when he donned a resplendent pair of gaily striped silk “shorts.’’ * * * * THE FUEHRER’S PRAYER God, dear God, attention please! Your partner Adolf’s here And has a word or two to say Unto, your private ear. So turn away all others then And listen well to me For what I say concerns me much Myself and Germany. You know, dear God, I is your friend And from mine hour of birth I quietly let you rule the heaven While I ruled o’er the earth. Tn every way I’ve tried to prove To you mine heart is true W I only claimed mine honest share Tn the great things that we do. And when I told mine soldiers Of bygone battle days I gladly split.'the glory And gave you half the praise. You could not .have a better ' friend """ 1 Tn sky, on land or sea Than Adolf Hitler number one The Lord of Germany. ~. 'J <■ So what I ask, dear . God, is this That we should still be friends And you should help me send my foes To meet their bitter ends. If this you do for me, dear God, I’ll nothing ask again And you and me will partners be For ever —Amen.