Spent the afternoon in hammering;

Hammered till he woke the Colonel,

Hammered till he woke the Major.

Moved away a little farther,

Till he’d got his job of work done,

Then he fixed it in the dug-out,

With some puddled mud he fixed it,

Got a piece of tin for chimney,

Dug some vine roots up for firewood,

Eked them out with bits of charcoal