. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . und ofboiled beef, served up with green kail and washed down withtumblers of toddy, follows at the village Inn and at the wee 154 A Roaring Game. short our ayont the twal, they depart to meet again in friendlyrivalry with some other local club next morning. Then comes the great bonspiel on the Royal Caledonianpond at Carsebreck, when the Curlers north of the Firth do battleagainst those of the south. There when the echoes of the st
. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . und ofboiled beef, served up with green kail and washed down withtumblers of toddy, follows at the village Inn and at the wee 154 A Roaring Game. short our ayont the twal, they depart to meet again in friendlyrivalry with some other local club next morning. Then comes the great bonspiel on the Royal Caledonianpond at Carsebreck, when the Curlers north of the Firth do battleagainst those of the south. There when the echoes of the start-ing gun rings in the Highland glens, the men of the Lowlands,with besom and stone, fight the stalwart Highland men just asthey did with dirk and claymore in the olden times, and theringing shouts from a thousand throats would make the traveller,who hurries along the railway by the edge of the meadow, thinkthat he had come upon the scene of an old clan fray. Indeed,the gathering of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, when ice isstrong on Carsebreck, is undoubtedly the most stirring sportingsight to be seen in Great Britain, if not indeed of the
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