TRY AGAIN, JOHNNIE!
Johnnie came from London town on a holiday, Brought his cue and cue-case down, a game or two to play. For he meant to try his skill On us country chaps until We had to pay his hotel bill — That was Johnnie’s way.
Try again, Johnnie, try again, do! We country bumpkins are fair sport for
you! P’r’aps in London you’ve often been
“ had,” . . . But you’re sure to take a rise out of a country lad.
Johnnie challenged Vanmer Giles; Varmer Giles was willing; Johnnie, biimming o’er with smiles, wagered him a shilling. But when Varmer Giles put on Two small breaks of flfty-one, Johnnie’s smiles had quickly gone— So had Johnnie’s shilling!
Johnnie said, “Let’s play at Pool, think ng “ ’Twill be funny, If I can’t swing on some fool for a pot of money.” But at ten o’clock that night, Johnnie off h’s head was quite; Paying out with left and right Didn’t seem so funny.
Try again, Johnnie; try again, do ! Your holiday’s over, the hotel bill is
due ! Somehow or other, it’s you that’s been “ had,” For you couldn’t take a rise out of a country lad ! —The “ New World of Billiards.”
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 957, 9 July 1908, Page 13
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199TRY AGAIN, JOHNNIE! New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 957, 9 July 1908, Page 13
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