It was a truly awful moment for all of us.

And then, after half time, didn't those Cornwalls within five minutes run in another goal, and, worse than all, Jumbo Larson laid out Snoopy flat on the ice! Now the game stood six to two! Think of it, Mamma!" Then Adrien put in: "It was at this point that the old lady made a remark which, I believe, saved the day.

What was it exactly, Hugh ?" "I didn't quite get it." "I know," said little Vic Forsythe, himself a star of the Eagle forward line.

"You poor Sassenach! You couldn't be expected to catch the full, fine flavour of it.

Maitland was trying to cheer the old lady up when she said to him: 'Yon half backs, A'm thinkin''-- she was a soccer fan in the old land, I believe--'yon half backs, A'm thinkin', are gey confident.