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Title: Digger Smith

Author: C. J. Dennis

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DIGGER SMITH

by

C. J. Dennis

1918 (rev. 1919)

TO THE A.I.F.

CONTENTS

I. BEFORE THE WAR
"Before the war," she sighs. "Before the war"...

II. DUMMY BRIDGE
"If I'd 'a' played me Jack on that there Ten..."

III. DAD
"I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more ..."

IV. DIGGER SMITH
"'E calls me Digger; that's 'ow 'e begins ..."

V. WEST
"I've seen so much uv dirt an' grime ..."

VI. OVER THE FENCE
"'Taint my idea uv argument to call a man a fool ..."

VII. A DIGGER'S TALE
"My oath!" the Duchess sez. "You'd not ixpect ..."

VIII. JIM'S GIRL
"'Oo is that girl," sez Digger Smith . . .

IX. THE BOYS OUT THERE
"Why do they do it? I dunno..."

X. HALF A MAN
"I wash me 'ands uv 'im," I tells 'em, straight ...

XI. SAWIN' WOOD
I wondered wot was doin'. First I seen ...

XII. JIM
"Now, be the Hokey Fly!" sez Peter Begg ...

XIII. A SQUARE DEAL
"Dreamin'?" I sez to Digger Smith . . .

GLOSSARY

I. BEFORE THE WAR

Before the War

"BEFORE the war," she sighs. "Before the war."
Then blinks 'er eyes, an' tries to work a smile.
"Ole scenes," she sez, "don't look the same no more.
Ole ways," she sez, "seems to 'ave changed their style,
The pleasures that we 'ad don't seem worth while--
Them simple joys that passed an hour away--
An' troubles, that we used to so r