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Title: "Over There" with the Australians
Author: R. Hugh Knyvett
Release Date: December 3, 2005 [eBook #17206]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "OVER THERE" WITH THE
AUSTRALIANS***
E-text prepared by Al Haines
[Frontispiece: Captain R. Hugh Knyvett.]
"OVER THERE"
WITH THE AUSTRALIANS
BY
CAPTAIN R. HUGH KNYVETT
ANZAC SCOUT

Intelligence Officer, Fifteenth Australian Infantry
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published April, 1918

BILL-JIM'S CHRISTMAS
(Bill-Jim is Australia's name for her soldier)

Here where I sit, mucked-up with Flanders mud,
Wrapped-round with clothes to keep the Winter out,
Ate-up wi' pests a bloke don't care to name
To ears polite,
I'm glad I'm here all right;
A man must fight for freedom and his blood
Against this German rout
An' do his bit,
An' not go growlin' while he's doin' it:
The cove as can't stand cowardice or shame
Must play the game.

Here's Christmas, though, with cold sleet swirlin' down\u2026
God! gimme Christmas day in Sydney town!
I long to see the flowers in Martin Place,
To meet the girl I write to face to face,
To hold her close and teach
What in this Hell I'm learning\u2014that a man

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