CHILDISH
BALD-HEADED PLAYERS OF MARBLES AND LEAPFROG. Sydney, Monday. The curtain of Time rolled back for just a little while at Rockdale on Saturday and portly gentlemen in their late forties became boys again for a few short hours, knelt down. in •the dust at Rockdale Public School, and. played marb'les as they did so many years a'go. Lads who were grey and bald, fired catapults and blew ' through- pe'ashooters with the gusto of the ex- . tremely young. It was the first reunion of old boys of the Rockdale school — boys Who at-. tended between 1882 and 1902. They pl'ayed leapfrog and'rounders. In odd ctirners games- of marbles were in progress. And when the old -hell went they "f ell d'n," nearly 100 of therfi, in four lopg lines. Th'e "class" was taken by Mr.-- John Cope, headmaster now of Bexley school — the master who taught them ih those half-forgotten days. Later they went into "school,'' sat ' in their old class-rooms, and were given lessons iby Mr. Cope. " ' '• They fiiiished- the- day with "Auld Lang ' Syne" and a smoko "at'night.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 630, 7 September 1933, Page 2
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