Has come back home and, naturally, given

Artistic touches to the tales he's told;

The Transport was my scene of martial labours;

That was the section where I saw it through;

And I have told astonished friends and neighbours

Some lurid yarns of you.

You are the theme I have been wont to brag on;

I've told how you, my now innocuous moke,

Would chew the tail-board off a G.S. wagon

By way of mere plaisanterie (or joke);