• Modern football is said to be a direct descendant of .an ancient Roman game called "liarpastum," in which the object of the players on eacli side was to seine tho ball and carry it, by some means or other, across a line marked on the ground in tho rear of their opponents. The fables of,old are often-timcs told: Wo read of 'The Fox and the Crow"; It is sad to behold how flattery bold Could trick .such a simpleton so. It might, we all know, have been .well with the crow, If she'd lived in an ago moro mature, And' prevented tho wheosse that lost her ; tho oheecg, With .Weoda'Qmt 78^
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 3
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111Untitled Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 3
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