RASTUS AGAIN!

Waipa Post, Volume V, Issue 211, 9 May 1913, Page 2

RASTUS AGAIN!

Since the opening of the hockey season I’ve got the hockey itch or fever or whatever ye call it. I’ve haunted that “old paddick” whenever I’ve seen anybody- going that way with a crooked stick and short stocking and shorter pants, waiting his way up that way, but I got the surprise of my life Wednesday when I found there’s a new branch of hockey ites —it was a fancy kind—and my word, they were got up to kill; and paint —they quite spoiled their complections with it!

it was very exciting, some of ; the girls was called girl-names, I and some of them boy-names, so 1 that I got tied up in a knot and the spectators got quite | excited, and talked very famil-iar-like 10 some of them funny figures in the latest London suffragette fashions. But nothinghappened serious. No one was hurted leastways, more than to get a 20lb crack on the shins ora hefty bunt in the bread-basket. But it was on me way home that 1 got a new sensation. The old men was playing hockey on the green without sticks and gloves and shin pads, but they had their coats off, and some had their tempers out too. One old man was swearing at a young feller because he wasn’t up, but as far as I could see he was up, and dressed too. Then he did’nt take enuf greens, but blowed if I could see him takin eny, he was’nt eating nuthing. He was going wide of the mark till it got dark, then he started kissing Kitty and fooling with her, so they got a candle and stuck it up near her so’s she should’nt be assaulted in the dark.

I thought I’d missed most of my foolishness in life, and was pretty safe from now on, on account: of my age, but no, 1 see 1 won’t be safe till I’m a dead head and safe in my grave.