THEY HAD TWO.
An English paper says that on the occasion of a football match between a number of military officers and a team of lawyers the former had prepared a splendid lunch for the visitors before the game. Both teams did thorough justice to the lunch, and the legal gentlemen going in strong for champagne and cigars the officers anticipated an easy victory. On looking toward the football ground, however, after lunch the officers espied a remarkably fresh-look-ing lot of giants kicking the ball about, and in amazement asked their guests who the strangers were. " Oh," replied one of them, finishing the last glass of champagne, "those are our playing team ! We are only the lunching team, you know," ;
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4204, 15 May 1895, Page 6
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120THEY HAD TWO. Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4204, 15 May 1895, Page 6
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