Those Oranges!
p. 17 · Read in the full issue
The following was overheard one day when a well-known ship visited Rotuma.
Greenhorn member of personnel (mak ing desperate efforts to climb a bread fruit tree): “I’ll climb this so-and-so tree if it takes me a week. Give us a leg up, Pal!”
Pal (giving him a leg up): “Right you are. But you’ll never get up there. You need a ladder. The trunk is too smooth and the first branch is too far from the ground. Anyway, what’s the big idea?”
Greenhorn M.O.P. (gazing wistfully up aloft): “I want to pick some of those lovely oranges!”
“Amel”.
Pilot-Officer Loudon, after about 15 months on Spitfires in England, is now back in Papua, and has been in some of the very recent fighting there.