With the Serbs in Macedonia

THE WEATHER
PTE. SMITH EXPRESSES HIMSELF ON THE SUBJECT OF THE
BALKAN CLIMATE
When it's 'ot in Macedonia, it's 'ot and no mistake,
With that rotten kind of 'eat wot's 'ot and wet.
"
bony-er," a fat one is a lake.
A skinny bloke gets
And the middle size, 'e washes in 'is sweat !
It ain't a 'ealthy area— it's full of snakes and stinks,
And flies and fleas whose bumps is proper swells !
If you don't pick up malaria, watch careful where you
drinks,
There's dysent'ry and typhoid in the wells !
When it's 'ot in Macedonia, it's 'ot.
(That is information gathered on the spot !)
It is 'umid, 'ot and 'orrid,
And you mops your dripping forehead.
And you thinks about the country quite a lot.
But all that you can say.
In a fretty, sweaty way.
"
Is " 'strewth, it's 'ot !
When it's cold in Macedonia, it's cold without a doubt,
And you think of English winters as a treat.
You can easy get pneumonia afore you know you're out,
^An' you seldom 'as a chance to dry your feet.
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