BALLAD OF THE ISLETON CREW (Cont’d)

28th Heavy News, Volume 2, Issue 3, 29 January 1943, Page 2

BALLAD OF THE ISLETON CREW (Cont’d)

h.us eight good men well loaded with stow. Not counting the other two) Survived for a day and a night on this feedj-* /Nile the bones, into soup slowly brewed* lot the time sure returned when the men grimly ’ learned Dbat one meal doesn’t, keep them forever, * 5o they earmarked the; next to bo secretly axed Ind poor Alox.was quite in a dither* 1 They stalked him by nipht they watched him b-- day, Thilo our ’Bomb-,- 1 was seen soon to totter, Diller a gunner quite clever «said ”Tis he now or never Jr his carcase will yield scarce a trotter.” 30 at" midnight next day the next verse in my lay Records the sad exit of Billy; ' • /Mile the gunners sat -thejo slowly stroking- his hair old adorning his corpse with. a. lily. " ■ j The gun crew they rested while he was digested, Ind George hunter quite tearfully trembled. Dor the truth starkly loomed - he was certainly doomed il? a fate which those others rosembihd'* 'V " v 4 ' ‘ • --. ,« „ . )h I Flesh is flesh and moat is moat /hatovor the world opines, * •’or the tripe of a striper is richer and ripeife a gunner who secrotoly dines* • fes, G .or go was knifed (end departed this life) 3y the blade of one gunner named Cu-.ver ft light mouths slowly watered as last striper was slaughtered, Ind Bill sadly doffed Bulaclaval lye I Eight good men and true wore wo ( A memory the other throe) ’,, ' fat food was all gone and our shanks growing long, Thilo ’Paulette’ pointed s.till - out to sea. The days turned to weeks whd,le these gaunt, skinny freaks leased asking if Troop were food hoarders; Dill Junior camo grim visagod yet sane Ind solemnly road Standing Orders. ’ v . Dhc truth at last dawned as Sc: tt ’wooffed’ and forewarned ■ ls to what was intended their fate. ' ■ .'or in voice deep and lew ( scarce a twitch,, to his mo) .'a road ” A SKELETON CRT' OF EIGET.” . .’..us ’Vigilance’ defined to cur peace of mind ”

o knew what at length was in store. 'ho guns would bo manned all over this* 'land ‘’’ ' ’ -• • y the ghosts of all mon now at war. "~

And 10, there was trial -and tribulation in those days, for the Children of Ait ch Row and other caapahi.os of the land" of Wa Taa wore suits by a plague of insectwhich did wall nigh devour than for their wickedness and for the oaths which wore wont to cone forth from their lips; frqa the highest even.unto the lowliest they wore not immune, and did net escape the plague, so that rather than become trancuH they did wax more profane. Then one of their number did go unto one which is called Ar Eks Bn, a siikt-" man of-val.n-r and skill.>d in the arts of war, and did say, "Hearken art?, me, 0, Ar 3-s .Aw, for I say unto you that there will march into the ranks of' Aitch kow the Field Bakery." Then said Ar E-. Ha ’’ .Aiy .sayost thou those things ?" and ths Prophet did 1 say, " V.rilv I say unto year that those tilings are true, for are not.the Contains of tlie host wearied by doing their scenes ?"• THUS SAITH HOI CL DA.