Category: Observations
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A Gallant Rescue
With Peter still in the loch, Jeck attempts a rescue with an old tyre but that sinks due to lack of air. In desperation Jeck runs off home to fetch his salmon hook. To be continued …
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P Birley Diver
It is time to put the depth charge onto the boat with the wheelbarrow but Peter misses the gang plank and ends up in the water, together with the depth charge.
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Mair Depth Chairges
Jeck and Peter finish making the oil barrel depth charge but matters get out of hand on the way to the loch, where a submarine has apparently been sighted.
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Jek Maks Munitions
Peter Birley calls in on Jeck to see what he is up to. Jeck is constructing a depth charge to be used on Pitbirley Loch, to counter the submarine menace. Peter offers to help with Jeck’s calculations on how much dynamite he needs, but Jeck isn’t very impressed with Peter’s maths when it comes to…
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Serjint Peter Parrysheeter Pairt 2
On his way home from bayonet practice, Peter Birley has a fright and thinks he has come across a German paratrooper. Thrusting his wooden bayonet into him, it turns out not to be a paratrooper after all.
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Serjint Peter Parrysheeter
Peter Birley’s musket was out of action so Jeck the joiner made him one out of wood, so he could practice his bayonet drills with it. As Peter lunged at him, Jeck fell to the ground and Peter thought he had killed him but the only casualty was Jeck’s medicinal bottle of Glentakit whisky.
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An Ee tae Bizness
Jeck the joiner organises burials and, on the way home after one such occasion, he is chatting to one of the mourners, who reveals that he is ninety-two years old. Jeck replies that, at that age, it’s hardly worth his while going home.
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If its Home-Fed Meat – Chaw Weel
“Asking for a friend”, Barrowsgate would be grateful to receive any parts of a waistcoat that readers might come across when eating their Sunday roast. The friend’s wife had shredded it up with the food for the bull.
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Military Drill at the Mains
Barrowsgate deals with more fallout from his column accusing some people of lacking faith in the British war effort. Barrowsgate thinks that his neighbours seem to have got the message, and patriotism has resurged in the local defence force, particularly “Mains”, its sergeant instructor. Barrowsgate observes one of their parade drills.
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In Reply
Barrowsgate answers those readers who doubt whether the Allies will win the war and he decries those who are profiting from it.