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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 18 April 2008 - Volume 06<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Games"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One game of chance that used to be played around here for gambling
purposes until the middle of the 20th century was "Anker en Zon" (Crown
and Anchor in English). Illegal nowadays, but apparently some
variations of the game (chuck-a-luck in the US, hoo hey how in China,
bau cua ca cop in Vietnam) still survive.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Kind greetings,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
<br>
Luc Hellinckx<br>
</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
PS: Pigeon racing still happens, but is not as popular as it used to be (</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duivensport" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duivensport</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">). I was once told that the best pigeons are sold for an awful lot of money to the Japanese.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span><span class="lDACoc"></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Games" 2008.04.18 (01) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Elsie,
Roger,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L
"Games"</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey,
Elsie, 'Vyf van die Beste' seems to have been par for the course round here for
stopping at a cock-fight, not so much for the cruelty to the birds though that
was always a consideration, as the vicious ways of the people
that indulged & betted at these occasions. You seriously didn't want your
sons to keep that kind of company (I don't say the cock-fighting fraternity is
viscious across the board, only that it was certainly the case
here).</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
Pretoria it was on the west side of town in my Father's day. When he was a
prefect in High-school he had occasionally to be sent to round up truants, among
them sons of the highest in the land, at just such celebrations. In the old days
discipline was largely left in the hands of the senior scholars. They seem to
have managed it better.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I missed
out on this sort of opportunity, having brought up in the Outer Reaches of
Darkest Rust der Winter, between the Springbokvlaktes & Jakkalsdraai. My
father however grew up on Garsfontein outside Pretoria, riding distance
from Town.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ron, we
were a country with vast distances & a well established & serviced
rail-system. Every week you could rail your 'krat' of 'duiwe' to the uttermost
reaches of the country with a note to the local stationmaster to release the
pigeons on arrival & telegram you. It was justabout the definitive
pastime of every railway employee, so you got comradely concern & interest
in the result. It was also practically the only common interest
of all classes of English & Afrikaner, rustic & urbanite. I think
it was the Cornishmen that came to our gold-mines who brought the sport -
in contrast with cock-fighting, a gentlemanly, humane & amiable pursuit. Our
Afrikaans agricultural journal the 'Landbou Weekblad' & Radio Pretoria
too regularly devotes ample space to the sport. Pigeons had (for all I know
still have) the same domestic status as dogs & horses. Only unregenerate
parvenus would stoop to eating the noble bird. Don't you have
chickens?</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yrs,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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