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“The Ten Commandments
of Curling” |

Curlers in their after-game ueliberations have assembled these “shall nots’
as 3 ue ks both the out and the in for the skip will not ES
which is responsible for so much good fellowship. , hold him guiltless
who throweth the wrong turn.

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1976 CASSIAR, B.C.
VOLUME 24

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1, Thou shalt have no other game before me, for | am the roarin’ game which was 2. Come not upon the ice with the old
in the beginning (even in the stone age), is now, and shall ever be. house broom. Thou can’st not quicken

the pace of a dying rock with last year’s

6. Thou shalt not strew straws off thy broom
in the path of thine own, or thine adversary’s
rock, neither shalt thou introduce any foreign
body in front of them, causing them to halt in
their course and to die suddenly and become
a hog, which is an abomination in the eyes
of the skip.

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5. Thou shalt hearken diligently unto the defeated

4, Plan not a running shot when thou art asked for a guard, skip when his voice is lifted up in lamentation
lest thou pass thine own shot through, so sending thy skip against the punk ice, and thou shalt not turn thy
up in the air; such play getteth his goat, queereth his game, face from him when he blameth his third man.
causeth him to swallow his tobacco, and to revile thee openly. Even so, shalt thou secure a listener against the

day of thine own defeat.

7. Thou shalt not Stealthily push or kick a rock into the
house, for the opposing skip will know of a certainty, and
his anger will be kindled against thee even to the point of
breaking his broom handle over thy head, and thrusting
thee hence from the sight of curlers, causing the ending of
thy days of curling, for this is an unpardonable sin,

10. And when thou comest to the iast end, and hast the game won,
and hast still one rock to play, and then, played with great deliberation,
thy rock gambols playfully down the ice, sailing jauntily through the port,
and pusheth thine adversary’s rock into the house, so that it counts him the
end and the game, and thou cometh down the ice with fear and trembling,
and art hailed by the enemy as a good sport and a fine curler, and by thine
own side with groans and mutterings for having thrown the game away,
thou shalt receive the proffered hand of thine adversary with a

smile, even though thou may wish it were his neck.

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8. Thou shalt have no discourse
with thine adversary while
his foot is in the hack and his
hand is on the rock, but if 9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s rock, nor his new broom,
; : ; nor his lead player, nor his third man, who is his mainstay and
eee ees a wall of defence in the day of battle.