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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374743" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Friendly Game Of Football</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were challenged by The Dingoes - they're the pride of Squatter's Gap-<br>To a friendly game of football on the flat by Devil's Trap.<br>And we went along on horses, sworn to triumph in the game,<br>For the honour of Gyp's Diggings, and the glory of the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we took the challenge with us. It was beautiful to see,<br>With its lovely curly letters, at its pretty filigree.<br>It was very gently worded, and it made us all feel good,<br>For it breathed the sweetest sentiments of peace and brotherhood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We had Chang, and Trucker Hogan, and the man who licked The Plug,<br>Also Heggarty, and Hoolahan, and Peter Scott, the pug;<br>And we wore our knuckle-dusters, and we took a keg on tap<br>To our friendly game of football with The Dingoes at The Gap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the fellows came to meet us, and we spoke like brothers dear.<br>They'd a tip-dray full of tucker, and a waggon load of beer,<br>And some lint done up in bundles; so we reckoned there'd be fun<br>Ere our friendly game of football with the Dingo Club was done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their umpire was a homely man, a stranger to the push,<br>With a sweet, deceitful calmness, and a flavour of the bush.<br>He declared he didn't know the game, but promised on his oath<br>To see fair and square between the teams, or paralyse them both.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then we bounced the ball and started, and for twenty minutes quite<br>We observed a proper courtesy and a heavenly sense of right,<br>But Fitzpatrick tipped McDougal in a handy patch of mud,<br>And the hero rose up, chewing dirt, and famishing for blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Simple Simonsen, the umpire, sorted out the happy pair,<br>And he found a pitch to suit them, and we left them fighting there;<br>But The Conqueror and Cop-Out met with cries of rage and pain,<br>And wild horses couldn't part those ancient enemies again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the umpire dragged them from the ruck, and pegged them off a patch,<br>And then gave his best attention to the slugging and the match.<br>You could hardly wish to come across a fairer-minded chap<br>For a friendly game of football than that umpire at The Gap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a while young Smith, and Henty, and Blue Ben, and Dick, and Blake,<br>Chose their partners from The Dingoes, and went pounding for the cake.<br>Timmy Hogan hit the umpire, and was promptly put to bed<br>'Neath the ammunition waggon, with a bolus on his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feeling lonely-like, Magee took on a local star named Bent,<br>And four others started fighting to avoid an argument:<br>So Simonsen postponed the game, for fear some slight mishap<br>Might disturb the pleasant feeling then prevailing at The Gap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sixty seconds later twenty lively couples held the floor,<br>And the air was full of whiskers, and the grass was tinged with gore,<br>And the umpire kept good order in the interests of peace,<br>Whilst the people, to oblige him, sat severely on the p'lice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, we fought the friendly game out, but I couldn't say who won;<br>We were all stretched out on shutters when the glorious day was done;<br>Both the constables had vanished; one was carried off to bunk,<br>And the umpire was exhausted, and the populace was drunk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we've written out a paper, with good Father Feeley's aid,<br>Breathing brotherly affection; and the challenge is conveyed<br>To the Dingo Club at Squatter's, and another friendly game<br>Will eventuate at this end, on the flat below the claim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have pressed The Gap to bring their central umpire if they can-<br>Here we honestly admire him as a fair and decent man-<br>And we're building on a pleasant time beside the Phoenix slums,<br>For The Giant feels he's got a call to plug him if he comes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+George+Dyson">Edward George Dyson</a><div class=q>
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