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Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 113, 30 August 1902, Page 7

Ping-pong in Wellington. The shades of night were tailing fast, As from a toy-bazaar there pass'd A youth, who bore, the crowd amid, A box, with this upon the lid, "Ping-pong." •'Try not the game," an old man said, "Play draughts or tiddlywmks instead , Avoid it, sir, while yet you can!" He said, "Go to' you ancient man, Pmg-pong." "O stay !" a maiden said, "I bid," (Twas wrong of her, and yet she c. "And throw that dreadful game awav." He said, "My dear, excuse me play,' Pmg-pong I" He reached Ins home and started plav And with his household, night and day, Competed, till he soon became A mighty champion of the game' Pmg-pong.

He beat his fond, but stout, mamma, He beat his Lambton Quay papa, Has sister Jane and brother Pat He readily defeated at Ping-pong. He beat them all, no matter who, His cousins, aunts and uncles, too ; And when they then the game forsook He taught th© parlourmaid and cook Ping-pong. He never drank, he never fed, He never even went to bed ! In oonsequnce at last he died, And with his fleeting breath he cried "Pmg-pong!" Upon his splendid marble tomb Is writ the glory of his doom ; In words, of gold, that everyone Who reads that epitaph may shun "Ping-pong !"

THE ECONOMIC. They also have Woolen Delaines, Woolen Voiles, Fancy Grenadines, Barritz Cloths, French Cashmeres, and 100 other varieties for Spring Costumes. BEST VALUES and LOWEST PRICES. Madam Hanson and Miss Jack, the leading Wellington Dressmakers, are now prepared to execute orders for the Spring Season. GEORGE & KERSLEY, WELLINGTON.

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