Wise and otherwise

Eastern Districts Chronicle (York, WA), Saturday 6 July 1901

They were a comical looking lotsome barefooted, others clad in one boot, kneeless trousers, with large patches on the rear portion that might have been intended to denote to which side they belonged, or probably indicated a fond mother’s forethought in preferring to have nature’s garb bruised rather than have the Sunday trousers torn. The barrackers for either side were not sow in giving vent to their enthusiasm, such epithets as “down him Snooker, buck in Ginger, on the ball Club-foot, take off your mother’s slippers bloke,” causing roars of laughter amongst the elder onlookers.