Concerning the Champion,
J. A. LUCAS. In other days, when Jack was on The .sunny side of twenty, The folk that know remember how, On checkers bent, he .Would take the homely draughts board down, And when none else could bother, In xtmte contentment play one hand Against the other 5 . Unconscious ever in the act, A- good old rule pursuing — His right hand ne'er could fathom whai His left was doing. Or this or that victorious, Jack Set little store upon it ; He wanted notea — and took them from The -lia-nd that won 'it. Time never by the wayside stays On titled claims to bicker, ..But weaves a- laurel crown v/hene'er She meets a sticker. So folk are bothered still, for when » Of old Jack- would entreat them, It bothered them to piay b'm, now It bothers them to bsat him. — J. Macxexxan.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 59
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144Concerning the Champion, Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 59
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