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A manuscript poem (forerunner of the games of Rugby & Association Football) The Carterhaugh Ba' game 'The Fir and the Heather or The Souter and Shepherd, seven line prose introduction, and sixty one lines of poetry, dated at end 'A Water, Dec 17th 1815', three pages, on laid paper watermarked John Hayes 1813, commencing 'The following verses were suggested by hearing of certain animosities which had taken place between the parties concerned in the late grand Football Match, played at Carterhaugh, and concluded by proposing a reconciliation. The title of the Song eludes to the marks of distinction, assumed by the Champions of the Day - The Selkirk party wearing a slip of fur in their hats - the Yarrow men a Sprig of Heather'
Some spotting, mostly to page three
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