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Title: All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Dykes, T
Subjects: Horses Sports
Publisher: London : Fores, Piccadilly, W.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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him, Blacksmith, is the cry of Laird Logan,gie him a wee bit jag wi his ain needle. This the Parish Vulcan means to do by removing the stoneand leaving his own in the place of it, but he fails, and his stoneindeed acts as guard to the winner—a very unfortunate state ofmatters. The tailor having his winning shot completely guardedby his opponents draws a second to within a few feet of thetee, amidst warm congratulations and a shake of the handfrom his skip. The blacksmith comes down with a rattle onhis stone, and so clears the ice for his successor, the parishminister, who is, curiously enough, opposed by the Free Kirkbellman of Strathtaigle. The latter has to play first, and electsto guard the winning stone, which he does with a most judi-ciously played shot, his stone being by means of his partnersbrooms just taken over the hog score. The minister is directedto leave it alone, and to try an inwick from his opponent s secondshot on the face of the winner. In delivering he imparts an
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A Roaring Game. 153 inner twist or side to his stone, which catches the one aimed aton the inner edge, and twists in on to the face of the winner,wliich it removes. It is a wonderfully clever feat, and shoutsof triumph and a tossing of brooms and caps into the airproclaim the appreciation with which it is regarded. Eh, man, but its grand, the laird says, and worth ahundred sermons any day, man. The bellman is asked by his skip to remove the guardwhich still lies on the hog score, and this very simple curling feathe succeeds in doing. The minister replaces it as well as hecan, but leaves half of its cheek bare when looked at from thetee. The two skips now leave their position by the tee to finishup the head, and Laird Lamont determines to keep whatadvantage his side has got by protecting the winning shot, soattempts to guard as well as he can the winning shot on the tee.He is far too slow, however, and all the efforts of his partnerswith their brooms fail to get his stone across the ho

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