He looked down, and I followed his gaze.
“You haven’t got no left hand,” he said quietly.
I saw that he was right, and this new illusion struck me as being about the last straw.
With a dazed sort of conviction I muttered: “Well, it’s a rummy world”—and promptly lay back and drifted out of it for the time being.
Ted Colles,
3rd L.H. Field Ambulance.
C.E.W.B.
Portrait of an
Australian
soldier returning
from the field of
glory at Helles.
May 11th 1915
FOOTNOTES:
[8] Bosker, boshter, bonzer—Australian slang for splendid.