... wait origin and cause the quarrel. Witness followed him • the and demanded his hat, which Mr Scott was . kicking about like foot-ball ; but in place offering the real hat, attempted palm the hat of old shoemaker • upon witness. (Laughter.) the demand being ...

... passing through it at noon time may see a number of young men and dressed in fustain, engaged in the favourite sport of football j clusters women and young girls, all habited in gowns of blue cotton, with a cloak drawn over the head in lieu of a bonnet ...

... Wigtown, 3d January.—The new year passed over here the most quiet and orderly manner ever remem- I bered, and although foot-ball and other amusements were as usual kept up, scarcely a case of intoxication was to be seen during the whole of the day. This ...

... monstrous extract might seen, Cut off his head, and kick'd it o'er the green : Thus was that head which was to wear crown football made a dragoon. The first persons who were brought to trial and executed after Bothwell, were Messrs John King and John ...

... f v° the °ther of children You S in them up. You feared the n cl ho always loved you beyond 1 'hl ' of t t hav become the football of all to be U , n P ipled and unfeeling woman, y entitl ed d to retain the position I am o he drea she your wife ' of the ...

... old age' lived on the memory of his young days. His eye kindled, and his countenance beamed, when he told of his feats at football, which he bore the bell at the great matches of yore down both sides of the borders. In everything that required the strong ...

... morning, we ma H fries and Cae imple and speeches of some of our nobility | the George 1 afternoon in ericket, or golf, or football, or excellent sup | for the Whit or pleasant travelling, and other innocent Burnie — thei Next, and that in no long time ...

... d propose that, instead of the people being engaged in useful industry, they should be recreated by resorting to quoits foot-ball, or some such amusements (a ) c bill, as it stood, would not be of the slightest use t0 'hose who could not read or write ...

... cause of total abstinence. He says :— are happy to see those evening sports of our young men in the Dock Meadow. Quoits, football, and shinty, are all the rage. Long may it be so ! These healthy, manly games are the natural enemies of whisky. They are ...

... with the precious stones monster Eagle is manufactured, and placed on the top of the towers of Notre Dame. grand game at football afterwards in the Champ de Mars, with the crown of England. The Lord Mayor of London, refusing to part with his mace, only ...

... opened at an early hour for prayer, and were well at* tended.—The public amusements of the day were shooting matches and foot-ball; tbo latter has degenerated much from former times. In its palmy days former Sheriff-Substitute of Wigtownshire was groat ...

... have given the franchise to £500 stockholders, board of control was not qualified for its work, and India had been made a football. He condemned the various wars which had prevented India from having a surplus revenue, and complained that the court of ...