SIGNALS RAT HURT FARGUS MONSTER IS OUTMONSTERED

Dit-Dah, Volume 3, Issue 1, 1 December 1939, Page 1

SIGNALS RAT HURT FARGUS MONSTER IS OUTMONSTERED

Excitement reigned in No.l Coy’s lines last evening (reports a specif ? correspondent) when a "rat" party under L/Cpl A.A. Smith made a wellplanned encircling movement on an alleged rat in Sjt. B.C. Bargus’ tent. The monster, meaduring fully an inch in its greatest dimension, was baffled by the taunts end yells‘”of "Ack-Ack" and company and took refuge under the floorboards. Willing volunteers' were soon forthcoming, advanced bravely and, with trouser legs held gingerly, lifted the floor section by section. ■ Trembling with fear and rage, the monster howled defiance at the mob. ■A storm of boulders crashed dorm, bu£, as the range record has showjg, very few marksmen are among those present. The "rat" escaped and fled to a sanctuary in the arms (figuratively speaking) of C.Q.M.S. Ben Walters, who hailed it as a brother (still figuratively speaking, of course) and suffered no man to come nigh to it. It is understood that the SPCA, giving him the benefit of the doubt as to whether it was the rat or the ' rent that he was protecting, intends to mention the CQMS in despatches. \ Owing to lack of space the obituaries of Sjt., Eargus ’ gear and the rat . may (or may not) be published at a later date.