The Archive · 1940

Knew His Number

Viuiaccr, home on leave, was relating his army experiences to his cronies:

"They takes me from home and they puts me Into barracks.

"They takes away me clothes and they puts me into khaki.

They takes away me name and they gives me "They takes' me to church on Sunday, and the parson gets up and says: Him $5, Art Thou Weary, Art Thou Languid?

gels up and I says: "Yes, sit" and 1 gets fourteen days ©, B, for giving 'a civil answer.

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