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With worldwide interest in the sport following the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, it seemed appropriate to print this extract from John Kerr's book 'The History of Curling', published by David Douglas in Edinburgh in 1890. In a poem* written by Captain Paterson about the beginning of this century are duly celebrated the deeds of Thomas Haddow (who is said to have been the prototype of Lazarus Po…