With the Serbs in Macedonia

THE TRAVELLER*
M2/1X98375 PTE. SMITH, DAVID, OF 708 M.T. COY. (FORD)
WITH THE ROYAL SERBIAN ARMY, HOLDS FORTH :
Speak as you find's my motter ; so I 'asten to admit
I'm one as 'as touched lucky in a-doing of my bit.
When you think about the trenches, an' the 'and-grenades
and gore,
It isn't none so dusty in the Army Service Corps.
It's true there's times when I feel sick I can't get 'ome to
tea
With the missus in the kitchen and the nipper on my knee.
But there, you can't 'ave ev'rything ; and my old gal don't
fret,
Between ourselves, she's raking in twice what she used
to get !
I freely own I've got no moan— why, though I paid no fare,
I've 'ad me Meditraynean cruise like any millionaire !
I've 'ad a squint at furrin parts, and 'eard 'em talking
Greek,
Yes, me^ wot makes when I'm in work a bare two quid a
week !
I've seen the sheep graze with the goats like what the Bible
teUs;
I've seen the stones that look like bread, and sniffed some
hefty smells ;
* Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine.