Simpler than Sounding It

After leaving Gallipoli in December 1915 our battalion (4th Essex) were

in camp near the pyramids in Egypt.

"Pro Tem." we reverted to peace-time routine, and brought the

buglers into commission again. One bugler was making a rather rotten

show at sounding the "fall-in"--his "lip" being out of practice, I

suppose--when a bored Cockney roared out, "Go rahnd and tell 'em."--_H.

Barlow, 5 Brooklands, Abbs Cross Lane, Hornchurch._

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