NO WONDER. Wc take from a Sumatra paper a list of some of the words which the Germans, in their patriotic ardor, propose to substitute for the English sporting terms formerly in use:— Golf—Locherballspiel. Cricket—Dreistabenschlagcrspiol. Leg before—Beinenschwindel. Not out—Nochniehtabgemaclit. Wicket—Dreistabeneinria|itung. Half-time—Halbspielwartepause. Hands—Handefehler. Start—Abgangsstelle, Starter Hauptabgangsstelleaufsk htsvorsteher. We can now understand the position of the German who suys he has no time for sport.—Punch. Better to live on beggar's bread With those we love alive, Than taste their blood iu rich feasts spread, And guiltily survive, * » Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is it? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.—Thomas de Quinsej,
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1915, Page 10 (Supplement)
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