IN THE "CHARGE."
A certain well-known football team were playing a new centre-forward they had obtained from another club for a fee of six hundred pounds. And among the spectators . who had come to witness the player's debut was a man who went into raptures over him. , "Grand player, this, mate," he said to a man who stood next to him. "Controls the ball well, and knows how to wriggle his way through the defence. He cost six hundred pounds, you know." "Yes, but he's not such a big 'un though," replied the other, y I? 0 ' °ne o£ the li Sht brigade, ain't he? . ' Just at that moment 'the new player came into contact with one of the opposing backs, and—crash!—he measured his full length upon the ground. "One of the light brigade he is, to be sure! came the reply. "Down goes the mi hundred!"
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 42, 17 August 1929, Page 21
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147IN THE "CHARGE." Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 42, 17 August 1929, Page 21
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