Oor AuP-Farrant Game. (Herald and Weekly Free Press.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 29

Oor AuP-Farrant Game. (Herald and Weekly Free Press.)

There's some say they canna see aucht in oor game; The reason o' that ia there's little in them. There's little to Bee in a plain checkered brod — As we el look for flowers on a hard metalled road. But oor game has a soul in't for simple an' learnt, Though Borne little gumption's required to discern't; Wi' them, sure eneuch, lies the blindness an' blame Wha canna see aucht in oor' aul'-farrant game. What fine canny caution, what foreaioht an' skill, What firm concentration, persistence an' will; What resolute patience to plan an'*to plod Are needed to play a quid game at the brod 1 Its years coont by thoosan's, an' still it's alive, An', mindin' that only the fittest survive, We surely are fairly entitled to claim A fitness to live for oor aul'farrant game. Oor game 'minds me aye o' the big game o' life, Wl' its losses an' oroßseß an' problems sac rife, Wl' its triumphs an' failures, its cloods an' its rifts, Its earneit endeavours, its slips an' its shifts, Wi' its sudden collapses, its stumbles an' fa's, Wi' its fltrivln' for wine, an' Itu missin' the draws. An' life, wi' its worries—if honest its aimIs sweetened an cheered by oor' aul'-farrsnt game. —James Ogg.