SNOOPER

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 5, 22 January 1944, Page 3

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ERE TTY grim outlook on Wednesday morning when you lads returned from Word If I had a look round the lines messlf before you camo over and ■ ho tents looked just like a hui*rican hit 'em. There wus pyjamas, socks, constipation tablets, liver frits# .true dot".- - tivos and New Tantamonto all demtic ally mixed. up and sprinkled with rinoo,, And when you chaps saw the '■has# I had a notion how you folt ? /but I Mint, never boon able to express me so If just the way you do* JSven soft spoken , Sappars - and tharo are some « said n Its a grim bloody war % Dunno about the " war H part# but she was a whopcaker of a storm* Belted hell outa me. Thought one ti%e tho Q.li. Stoxv wus- oomin’ right over on top on tho Hut whore I hung round till the water came pouring in the door and was about two inches deep until a chap came and opened the bottom door.-I wus gain* to take shelter in 14a ut* Brooker’s tent - was just pokin’ ■■ mo way in too - when down she Cann flop, say# did 1 hop it. Made for Capt. Boyd's tent which looked pretty good . Before I got there down came Jim Craig’s tent. And the rest of ’em began to go too® Heard M Ike « Smith say to a Sgt© ” Here s take my wallet# will you© ' I may be drowned or hit on tho head, and the res too much money in that for a corpse « The Sgt* said , j « Iks H :- ” Tho ’aint a thing this storm will shift that would hurt your head, but thanks all the same « how much is in tho wallet ? Dunno what u Ike K said, but it sounded pretty bloody to me* ?•* DIB you see thalffiess startin’ 1 to go ? Birst the top came off and then she creaked and groaned and started to get jittery* I l?egan to think she wus cornin’ right up to Cant* Boyd’s tent where I was* I scooted up to the truck d .vers tent and before I was the*. J, damn me if that tent didn’t go® Bogan to do me scone then*. The goddam wind was liftin’ mo and bowlin’ w

©long like I was a chiokon, flinishdd up by » Bunny u Sponsor’o tent way up top, X got protection from that tra© when a dirty cAg eoak wrapped itself right round me face, 1 did. another batch of saunas* Burnt ? cm pretty well ,too* Wig cm thm for a while and then somehow got down to tho cookhouses Jiwt in ttto too, ’cob tho go eta had big pots of suup ready for tho boys. Sura. X squeezed in and wrangled a dipper of it..,, was nearly drowned by water dr i ppi©™ ng off chape* ?:•» WIND calmed off a bit* Before long ch-W-were takin’ auurago and beginning to put tents up again when a hurrloan warning came through »• down had to come the tents just put up - everything had do be tied up and lads ready to go up to Ward X with • a blanket and a 'toothbrush. ;;u THS floor got Rida hard during the night and the air hot § but ntt so hot-.as ’bndny night ■ when the N.Y.D Racing Club had the boys lining up at the tote. Some of the lads were in luck «* saw one chap queue up four times* Back on the' first and last racoe wore most exciting ones* Hangover was no quitter - made a lota fellas groan too . Victorious in last race was last hope for some guys who had not had a win all night. Saw -Col. Murray up against the rails -.-ha •didn’t mind the rdin; didn't get a chance to find out how much money to won. (uoes ho was on right side. N o t like ” dittin' bull ” Lowe who did in more than ten bucks.?’? SAW some chaps talking in a group b :f»rc dinner on Monday night - thought it was some of our chaps back from Noumea and gau just snoopin up to get the lowdcn on tho new Pink House when gosh i 1 cure saw red* There was the General? the Brigadier and more of the "highups .*> Thought I’d sneak up and listen in. Might be able to find out when you chaps wvlQ gain’ homo - ’cos 1 figured out thats what they would be "talkin’ about to Major Blacker and Capt. Boyd and some of the other officers with ’emi ' but there was a guy there who kept lookin’ round and just kinds Watchin’ that Coveo like me didn’t get too familial like. I best it® Reckon I’d look kinds well ,in one of ’em General's uniforms. But I guess this new photo of me ’hint too bod. Hew you like ,fellas ? Guess . J oughts kinds got tops with z Sunshine. O.K. I'll be secin’ you* mit«r« ti «m « « tt fl »