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HOC KEY Hockey is an exceedinly dangerous game which consists of two teams of people
rushing around a field pretending to hit a ball with long wooden sticks,but in
reality bashing each other for this reason it is a game to be avoided at all
costs. Hockey first made its appearance in the twelth century,as a way of getting
rid of caterpillars from people's vegitable gardens.In 1137 there was a plague
of caterpillars in the village of hockey in the mud,and it looked as if the
whole lettuce crop would be wiped out. People had tried everything but the
caterpilars just kept appearing every morning in large numbers and eating all
the lettuces. A parish meeting was held and one villager,George Ball said there was only
one thing to do attack caterpillars physically as they ate. So the villagers
went out in the middle of the night and sawed branches of the trees.Then next
morning as the caterpillars come out of hiding and started eating the
lettuces,the villagers attacked.They leapt upon the lettuce patch and started
laying about them left and right.Sure anough the caterpillars got so frightened
that they all leapt off the lettuces and rushed off the next village. The villagers danced about with delight.Or at least,they did until one of
them noticed that,because of all this bashing with branches and dancing every
single lettuce had been flattened.The villagers were so mad that they all
started to chase around looking for George Ball.They bashed haystacks and bushes
trying to flush himout.But George had realized what was happening and had
tactfully decided to seek his fortune in London right away. However that is why the game of rushing around waving long bent bits of woo
and bashing a ball with them is named after village where it all started
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