On Furlough

'II/'E are on furlough. ** That is, we are on holidays; or, in other words, pleasure bent. We are becoming so badly bent that we’ll soon be broke.

We have just had the thrilling experi ence of driving our own car. It took us quite a while to make up our minds to buy it. We went around and inspected every car in Sydney. There are about three million second-hand cars in Sydney and every one is mechanically perfect, well shod, and the best bargain in town.

A.nyhow, that’s what the dealer reckoned.

By the way, we found a new pub when we were looking at cars and it was so attractive that we almost bought a Model T Ford for a hundred quid. The taxi home cost nearly that, as we were direc ting him.

However, we are now driving our own car and feel in a fit position to criticise Sydney’s traffic problems. The main trouble seems to be the cops. They’re so clumsy and seem to reckon they know where we want to go. We ran over one’s feet the other day, but it was his own fault, standing in the middle of the road.

He pointed in one direction and we pointed in the other and went our own way. He was quite hurt when we stalled the engine while on his feet, and it cost us three quid and costs.

We got into another street with “One Way Traffic” on the sign. We had some trouble in this, as the others were all

going the wrong way. However, we turned a lot round by the time we reach ed the other end, and they’ll know next time.

We went up to the mountains on Sun day. There’s some of the best scenery in the world there. Blondes and brunettes and everything. We passed three of four scenes, and nearly caused a few more.

We’ve collected quite a lot of phone numbers since we’ve been down. The trouble is we’ve only written the number down without the name, and it has led to some very embarrassing situations. It was only the other day we got the wrong number and finished up taking our .old aunt to the Tivoli. It nearly caused a revolution in the family.

Well, we’d better ring off and catch our boat, as it’s leaving in ten minutes.

L.H.W.