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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 51, 21 December 1899, Page 7

Choose such recreations as are healthful, short, transient, recreative, and apt to refresh you ; but at no hand dwell upon them, or make them your great employment ; for he that spends his time m_ sports, and calls it recreation, is like him whose garment is all fringes, and his meat nothing but sauces ; they are healthful, changeable, and useless. And therefore avoid such games which require much time or long attendance ; or which are apt to steal thy affections from more severe employments.