Post by Karen on Jan 31, 2008 22:12:12 GMT -5
Here is a quote from P.G. Wodehouse (a British writer) on an old school friend of his who played rugby:
"Rugby football is more or less a sealed book to me, I never having gone in for it, but even I could see that he was good. The lissomeness with which he moved hither and thither was most impressive, as was his homicidal ardour when doing what I believe is called tackling."
and
"Stinker [the buddy], though no doubt a fiend in human shape when assisting the Harlequins Rugby football club to dismember some rival troupe of athletes, was in private life a gentle soul with whom a child could have played. . . ."
"Rugby football is more or less a sealed book to me, I never having gone in for it, but even I could see that he was good. The lissomeness with which he moved hither and thither was most impressive, as was his homicidal ardour when doing what I believe is called tackling."
and
"Stinker [the buddy], though no doubt a fiend in human shape when assisting the Harlequins Rugby football club to dismember some rival troupe of athletes, was in private life a gentle soul with whom a child could have played. . . ."