The Archive · 1905

The Kettle of the Ball

For youth to play is natural; the rbarian plays, the kitten plays, gambols, the lamb skips. But al that gatubals and jumps and skips after "it has reached maturity, Were we to meet an elderly springing about in the air, generally speaking, like kid, we should say it had gone mad. Yet we throng in our thousands to watch elderly indies and gentlemen jumping about after a ball, twisting themselves to strange shapes, rushing, rac ing over one another; and with silver-backed hair bru

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