The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-09-26

a half drunken fiddle set up a
merry scrccch, quite unawares, and
a robust young looking woman, di-
vcsting herself of her bonnet and
shawl came into the centre with a
leap and hearty shout of laughter.
The spectators, pleased with her
good humor, raised a tumultuous
cha hap and clapped their hands
in joy. After having requested the
fiddler (who was blind to strike up
"Jack in the Green" she "wreath-
cd her face in smiles," and commen-
ced a series Of salutations, the ra-
pidity and violence of which sadly
disarrangcd her hair.
Not all the Taglionis or Ellslcrs
who ever lived gave so much plea
sure to their fastidious admirers as
did that young girl to the group of
golfers who were watching her.
They laughed, and shouted, and
clapped their hands, threw up their
hats, and roarcd "hurrah! :" and told
the fiddler to ''play up quicker
quicker till they attained an un-
easy state of fierce hilarity. go
it, SAL" said hundred voices, and
"Sall' caught the enthusiasm and
did ego it" in earnest, and the fiddle
went it too, with high pressure We
locity. She struck her hands upon
her hips and waved from one side to
the other, and whirled round, and
clattered with her heels, beating
time to the Infatuated fiddle, till she
worked herself into a frenzy; and
every limb, every feature and every
curl shook with the fury of the fun.
Then she would delicately lift her
irock with finger and thumb, and
start away on new series of mo-
tons, with frantic vehemence wor-
thy a Pythoness of the dance. But
all things have an end-thc fiddle
ceased-and the girl, gasping for
breath, retired to her friends, over
whelmed with the applauscs of the
crowd. Another soon started for
ward, and encore.
The next announcement Which at
tracted the attention of the "many-
headed" was bag race; which no.
rel race ! also saw. In large field
W. ,congregated some hundreds of
fS' = i SD r-,i -.--------!I',, .c Il
themselves to be enclosed in sacks,
resembling hopsacks. The mouths
OF these were drawn tightly round
each mans throat, and tied, so that
his head was the only part exposed
they were to struggle in this manner
to some stakes placed about a hun
drcd yards distant, and the men who
jhrst arrived of course won the race.
At given signal they started, Ia
thnSS short leaps, then stcadying
ninn 70 cSr from falling, and stop
: ', ~, lcap.-oRe before o. ii they , tried
n lI%Iy minutes had elapsed one Hei ,.l,,
~ III t" q, were rolling upon the ground,
+ " ";, tney found great difficulty in ri
y s;St 5 tIc Principal amusement con-
|, " 1891 IN obaerving their awkward
, l was witness also to another sro-
; cics Of diversion, wh;cI I', r,a, spe-
, eold, OF very ancient Derivation. In
d conspicuous part of tie town wa ~
raised Ions bench or tabI, oC y I'VE, i" " %S
= wood behind this stood tw ", lug,
u T"rty boys, whose hands woro Ivy OF
c ~ Hel behind them. In an inSt stake
as If by magic, large new ,i ,.S n,ato
, was placed before each bow cono
t tanning something rcs,mbling; !, o oom-
cake. 1t was so, in fact and m p
OF some material that would rn ,"Go
inc heat for long time; hot noI ,",'
ses was poured over it, all st,amlao
7 scorching hot. Alta given srnaI'
every boy stopped down his head -
out snatched IL back as soon, with
5, olistered nose. The boy who frs
d assq1ured his pan-caAc, without any,
!, new cooesc from his hands, won =
IN tive of inlinTl This game was produc-
= aers, though M ml nf n to the 1I3stan-
h to the poor lads, V 9,,d m a,o pleasure
, wry lae0s and Missing s throulPb " tha
: T tGeth, to cool the mouthi,l Of 1 ml
il ates. 'S 'heir pa
cb nH immense concourso of peopl,
c cnHke "a up the market place. YOUNG
' golfers and mechanics, with tbr;,
I a m,Ie ST., and s~eethcarts, middle agee
u ure ~. and grand eMldrcn, stoo or,i
I. up the thoroughfare, To tbn t S,oPP 81,
struction of ali business inc iR 1S,al o., Oh,
:. f3hliG ,! of business at b n0. T., VINO WIT
t cakes anu Rows of stalls loaded ~ wiT,
to the shape Of aiertbread, moulded in.
crowns '1S% s1 's ia. and aaS "Se%y lying ,t th nj
a al1hg, Others shone BRIGHT Md
l &c aolis of every imaginable Shane r T onh
variety OF feature and dress Thee c
were stalls loaded with nuts and ~ %.
anges, Others with TOYS for cb;l-
dren, and others, where advcnturn"s
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