THE GAME OF BOWLS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 386, 22 November 1932, Page 3

THE GAME OF BOWLS

PROVERBS FOR BEGINNERS Hear, 0 my son, and reeeive my sayings and the years of thy repute shall be many. Better is a poor and wise heginner than an old and hardened thumper, who will no more be admonish-ed. The fool fumbleth with his hands and refuseth reproof ; but he that scattereth not his own timber procureth favour. Better is a dinner of herbs where drawing is than a stalled ox and much breaking of heads. The way of him that scorneth instruction is as an hedge of thorns; hut the way of the diligent is made plain. My son, attend to my words, incline thine ear unto my sayings. When thou goest to play, let thine eye look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Turn not from the right hand />r the left; remove the foot from the loud pedal. A vaunting heginner, scorning instruction, playeth with a froward touch. He blinketh with his eyes, he slippeth with his feet he muddleth with his fingers. He deviseth' trouble continually, he soweth discord. Yet he that rebuketh such an one getteth it in the neck. Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that practiseth alone, and he that laboureth daily with his pace shall become strong. The skipper's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. It is naught, it is naught, saith the measurer; but when he has gone his way he boasteth. An high look, and a proud heart, and the tearing of the turf maketh the heart sore. Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow; Who hath contentions? Who hath bahbling ? Who hath redness of eyes ? Verily, he that gaineth not the countenance of the selector; at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like tan adder. My son, wateh thou the methods of McSwaka and Pilki and Djak il Giaour and Arthur and Teddy and Jimmie, and not the take-off of Kihitiri nor the modesty of the Dominion denizen who shall not be nam-ed. Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life. Enter not into the paths of Lignum Dynamitards; avoid them, pass them hy. For they sleep- not except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause many heads to he bowed and broken. Walk not thou in the way of'the Oligarchy, for they lurk privily to destroy the innocent, and play not dinkum. Lo! They have forsaken the law and the profits to gather trophies from the unwary; restrain thy foot from the path. Go not forth hastily to strive lest thou know not what to doj in the. end thereof. -L-any there are and divers . who escaped untimely from their incubators. He that delivereth sweetly delivereth' surely; but he that perverteth his bowl shall be known. He that being often reproved for foreing his pace hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly eome to grief and that without remedy. He that is wise practiseth. diligently and waiteth pati'ently; a reputation may be gotten hastily in the beginmng, but the end thereof shall not be vhlessed.