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little boozer that stood on the frontier of Belgium & France one side of the road belonging to each country, we had a really enjoyable evening, plenty of coffee & biscuits, & we all took it in turns to tell yarns, & 9 out of 10 of them were connected with Australia.
We tried to bring one of our chaps home with us he was dead drunk & sound asleep we could not wake him so Howard & I carried him outside, the cold night air had a magic effect on him, he suddenly woke up & started to lash round with his hands & feet the leather was flying properly & I managed to stop one on the fleshy part of the leg, that's what we got for trying to do a good turn, however, we got hold of him shook him & gave him his hat & a little fatherly advice & left the young waster, these are the sort of swine that give troops a bad name I reckon we ought to have dragged him home & given him a good ducking but it was too much trouble so