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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 11 (February 1, 1940)

Hearts and Homes

Hearts and Homes.

Winter is the season when pursuits are the more rugged and reckless–when man grasps gun, niblick, football and hockey stick and unleashes the rude health bequeathed to him by his ancestors of the Stone-and-bone Age and his pal Flintface. The word “sport” is described by optimistic lexicographers as meaning “play, romp, frolic, gambol, frisk.” Such a definition hints that the domed dictionarian is either a bit of a wag or blinded to reality by his long hair. He certainly knows little of the indignity of sport, more especially the brand called hunting, which entails hanging by one's chin-bristles to a sapling while grandpa boar sharpens his tusks on the soles of one's boots; or lying with one's face nestling in nettles whilst the melancholy moose moseys round the skyline with unchristian suspicion in his heart and nostrils.

“The hypothetical golfing achievements of that mendacious old bore, Colonel Bogey.”

“The hypothetical golfing achievements of that mendacious old bore, Colonel Bogey.”