BANKESTE'S BLOCKHOUSE

Gun Flash, Issue IV, 23 January 1943, Page 3

BANKESTE'S BLOCKHOUSE

V.) call it .Bankbio* s blockhouse* A thing of majesty, Nov/, Pll 'toll the story, of- how this came to be* - jf-y ' ■ ’ ■ ' ■ • With shovels ■' off our grand dads, A Ijol.e we went, to dig, ■< . Our, ticks were stone ago relics, ' Blunt and badly bent* '', ' : ' - ■'■■■ '? ' : ■■ i’ . ■'l ■' We raved x-r-d eft bed and sweated, .As we slaved in noonday sun, ■ ~ Through rock as hard as flint, . " ?-? And clay? like chewing gum. , y. ,/\' -■' .. .' ; -'■ '■' ' ■' At.? la at the-pit was finished, was deep and, ten feet square, Ercm b this’the blockhouse o low s, One'look' will grey your hair* ', , f " X- \ i * Tis made >. of three. inch timber, , * Hold firm with two inch nails, * With twelve by threes as?doorposts, And six by nines as rails*- ?. ' ■• ■<■ '■ ■ ' :| Tis ’neither round.nor oblong. Wo likeness on this ; earth, Lot l s hope the time ne’er comes, For -it to prove its worth# ' ■‘\ . . ■ •, 1 - ■ ' 7 ’ It’s fronted up with sand bags, ; \ ' y, Ard cornered*'©’or with, dirt * Lot’s hope it holds together, Or someone will get hurt* - 1 . ‘v ■ t - ■ Now, Bank ale, its.-. creator, Did visualise the plan, '* lio organised construction, ?■ , v , , ' Aayonly? Banks can* /■ ; ,h’ It has good ventilation, , Through a hole Just one 'foot squar- , go none can well complain. t ,‘ . . Of scarcity of' air* - Now. -when we leave this island, r We’ll tack thereto a plate, ’’You’ve seen the seven wonders, How gaze upon 1 the eighth*”, At last/ it was erected, . And the. landscape it did mar, Someone said ”T’ls finished ?'?, And Banks murmured “Yah”* s'

DISPERSAL SALE:' HAIA STUD FAR!: Mx. FOP LE "■ -' 3. Berkshire , (?) *Sow, obviously"with child", aS shortly to be confined, Liable to .litter up the place at tines ' but otherwise without vice. > 1 Fawn Bitch/ "sodie n in trouble to ’Cjionymoua the picture of misery z at 'present as she has. no father to arrange a shot gun ceremony for her. ■ For any art fancier she would, be quite a unique study in Cause and Effect. 1 Rooster disconsolate ' Up ■' CT 1 coufng”Mre bereft -of company-. ■ I pantm Hen. /’guale ff y With, clutch at. foot# 4 • ;. The 'proprietors Of .Mia . Stud regret ■ to' announce -that they have’ failed in . ' • their' effort a to ; opeh up an anxiously r awaited new department * the proprietress of the Pink Wua® would- not ggreo to any transfer of personnel from her . unit/ The disappoihWiWt has been, to / great and’ consequently we are closing down the -'stud for the season.