OUR BOYS AT HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7994, 4 December 1905, Page 3

OUR BOYS AT HOME.

North Country comments on the New Zealand footballers "A never sud awl, lahk it afoore," sairl a man from Yorkshire. "They're lahk eels. All over t'' shop, except where y'want 'em." "These .lohnies," paid one young 'Varsity watcher, "remind mc of of wtnt the old lady said about the flea : '"Drat, the ] little beast, my *ii I's always going on the place wh-rc 'it recently was.' " A Lancashire lad : "Eh, moi, but them Noo Zeakanders know how tcr fetch a chap down—not arf ! They flopped them Durham chaps dawn like Hakenscmidt fellin' Tom Cannon."

A Newcastle "coaly" : "AhVl read that '/*'ftlanders wns a hot lot. and by ruiii 1 hry be. It ivry Hupby match was like this'l'd give up real futba' (i.e.. Association." Which remark shows what a holil the Association game has upon this England •ompnml! with Iluffby. Another see '(in up agin yan ■ o' oor clubs. This 'is lakh a gals' skulo pjjyin' lilackburn liovers. Put it's a bit of an eyeopener all t'frame." A Yorkshlreman ". "Sharp 0- iYes, as n'ollcs wi' both emls pointed. They're as sharp w ' their hands as tho-m chaps at fairs as taks a ralvbit oot o' yer old 'ooir.an's bonn'-t. an' as qiiieh wi' thier feirt as a Frinclv 'eii;htm' moil."