SNOOPINGS BY SNOOPER
’ WELL, here I am again everybody. The Editor says I gota be pretty circumspect an* size up things before I open my mouth this time - on account of the paper going nome to all you misses.and. sweethearts# That’s pretty limitin’ jrou know to a bloke like me with a * lot of inside information, ’cos there £ some'pretty funny things happen’ in this place. BAGPIPES , for in - stance* W§ had a pipe band down here a f®w weeks back to . play for a parade some of the boys was goin’ in# The. band wus camped near us worse luck, and used to come round practicin’ It was interestin ’ to watch, the boys# Some was honest and said straight out they didn’t go much on the pipes; another lot what didn’t really like ’em, frat .didn’t like to admit it, said the pipes wus alright. And other blokes what claimed to be Scotch got quite troppo. Johnny Sutherland got all worked up as though somebody had got something outa the store without payin’ --signin’, I mean- for it. Surprisin’ too, v the blokes what said they had Scotch blood bubblin’ in their veins when the pipes started squaking. In addition to the McKenzies and the McGregors there was Fred -Kronast, M.rrie Corrie, Jack Ryan f young Ewar?, Willie Woolf, Charlie Storey, Tony Radisich and even our Basil# Fancy, a joker with a name like Murgatroyd claimin’ to be Scotch I There was some talk of startin’ a Free Scotch Movement, but there wus not enough of ’em. And any* way* all the blokes I’ve mentioned • are too keen on Ch inese Checkers * one of those free games started by ” Fat Willie ” Hart. :::: I wus goma
tell you folk of the five reasons why most of the blokes here dont want a furlough home, but the Editor looks hets ready to go to press, sin I reckon if I’m not ready .ho ’ll bo puttin’ in one of Peter Wingfield 8 poems in my column* Can t have that* Peter’s a good guy, but his poems aro so gloomy they make even the mozzies depressed. Guess I’d better rush* Cheerio > folks* Boys arc all 0. K.
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Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 12, 11 March 1944, Page 5
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