Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/346

162 I'll take my oath before them both that I will sure abstain,

But as soon as I'm in with a mate and gin, I know I'll do it again!

With a second-hand overcoat under my head

And a beautiful view of the yard,

Yes, it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C. B.

For "drunk and resisting the Guard."

Mad drunk and resisting the Guard—

'Strewth, but I socked it them hard!—

So it's pack-drill with me and a fortnight's C. B.

For "drunk and resisting the Guard."