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ANCIENT SCRIBE HAD JOURNALISTIC TOUCH

Poem Tells How Crowd Cheered as Captains Led Teams on Field--Had Many Modern Accoutrements of Game

Kit dropt by Fellm, Hugh by Paddy fell

Toss'd down by Darby, Dick forbore to Play

John tugg'd at Cabe; while thus confus'd they lay,

Sly Le'nard struck the unheeded Ball and Stole,

With easy Paces tow'rds the unguarded Goal."

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However, Captain Terence now stepped in and saved the day,

"When careful Terence, fleeter than the Wind

Ran to the Swain, and caught his arm behind

A dextrous Crook about his Leg he wound

And laid the Champion grow'ling on the ground."

With this accomplished Terence now proceeded to score.

. . . "one kick he softly stole. And with the other drove it thro' the Goal."

It would seem that the game ended one goal to nothing in the favor of the Soards, making them the new Champions of Ireland. Afterwards Terence and Norah got married and lived happily ever after, and so did Flora and Daniel.

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