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Football long ago our boys and girls and the Shrove Tuesday custom
An OCR fragment recalls a historic English Shrove Tuesday football tradition and a king Edward II ban on the game in court life. It mentions archegy, rough exercises, and a later note about modern scents and mosquitoes. The text is disjointed but preserves references to Lent, Britain, and American Thanksgiving as contrasts.
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