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Show j Interpreter Wanted. I Curling, like Its sister Scottish game ef golf, has Its own vocabulary. Here la a dialogue In which a Scot In the Antipodes tried to Illustrate the "kittle "kit-tle pints" of the game to his New Zealand friends. "What's a pat-lid, Mr. Macpherson?" asked an inexperienced inexperi-enced member of the Tenerable "skip." "Dlv ye no see, ye gowk?" said the skip. "Ye ding yer stane caunlly, but nea sae ffrte as tae hog It. Kae halfin' fieg. nor Jfnkin' turn, ye ken, but tentlely, that It aye gangs snoovln' an' straugcht as an elder'd walk, hog-smotherln' amang the fualrds, till ye fan' on the verra tee. When ye've dune that, laddie, ye've made a pat-lid, and ye may bear the gree I" |