sentences:  Following the misadventures of two larrikin soldiers, the strip was based on the "Gunn's Gully" newspaper humor columns written during the 1920s and 1930s by C. J. Dennis of the "Melbourne Herald".Dennis wrote about a philosophical farmer, Ben Bowyang, from Gunn's Gully.The first six installments appeared on a full page in the "Picture-News" in November and the comic strip was moved to the "Sun News-Pictorial" on 1 February 1940.