Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-11
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
From the Milwaukee News.
THE PLEASURES OF SKATING.

S1S Va |
Right beneath one of our windows from morn
till midnight, we see youngsters twisting their
legs into all conceivable shapes. We can't pick
up a paper, but an article on skating meets the
eye. Everybody says it's fun, and that's all eve
rybody' knows about il, for we have tried il. Last
night, about gas light time, after reading q glow
ing description OF life on skates, we prepared for
our first attempt, and sailed forth to join the mer'
ry crowd. We had on a pair of stega boots trou-
sers legs tucked inside. q Robert tailed coat and
white hat. We went down on the ice, and gave q
boy two sbillings in good coin of the realm for the
use of his implements. We have confidence, even
as great as Peters faith. We with the assistance
of q friend, fixed on the skates and stood erect, like
a BARRIERS pole.
Encouraged at the sight of some ladies on the
bridge looking at the skaters, we struck out. A
slant to the right with the right foot-a Giant to
the left with the left foos-ahd just then we saw
something on the ice, and stopped over to pick it
upl On our feet again-two slants to the right
and one to the left accompanied with a loss of con-
fdenco. Another stride with the right foot, and
we sat down with fearful rapidly, with very little,
if any elegancel What a sit down it was, for we
made a dent in the ice not unlike a Connecticut
butter bowl! Just then one of the ladies' remark.
ed-'Oh. look Mary, that foller with the white hat,
|ain't got his skeets on the right placer Ditto,
thought we. Just then a ragged little devil sang
out as he passed us-'HeHo old timber legs p and
we arose suddenly and put after him. Three
slides to the right-two to the left, and away
went our legs-one to the east and the other to the
west, causing an immense assure in our pants
land another pioturn Of n hnttnr tro % in tha ooId -
oh how cold-icel
We tried it again. A glide one way, q glide
and a half the other, when "phdck" came our
bump of philoprogenitiveuess on the ice, and we
saw q million Of stars dancing around our eyes,
like ballet girls at the Bowery theatre. How that
shock went through our system, and up and
down our spinal column. Lighting couldn't have
corkscrewed it down a creased sapling with grea-
ter speed and more exhilerating effect. Board
ing house butter nor a warranty deed, could not
have not struck stronger than we did-and a doz-
en- ladies looking at us-and our 'fissured' pants
Hello old cock sang out that ragged inp again,
and we there helpless! Soon we got up and made
another trial, with better success. Perhaps we
had skated in our peculiar style, fifteen feet, when
q laundering chap came up behind, and wo sal
down, with our tired head pillowed in his lap
and he swearing at us, when it was all his own
fault! How cold the ice was there, too Every
spot where VIZ made our debut on the ice-oh how
cold it wasl Our bear skin drawers were no pro.
lection at all We tried again, for the papers oil
say it's fun, and Down came our Roman Grecisn
nose, on the cold julep material, and the little
{, drops of crimson ran down our shirt bosom, and
u on to the cold ice. Once more we tried skating
made for the shore-sat down and counted dam
ages.
Two shillings in cash, thrown away. Seven
lateral and one "fronteral" bumps on ice. One
., immense assure in as handsome a pair Of ten dol
lar cassimeres as q man ever put his legs in. One
rupture in the,knee, extending to the bono. Four
buttons from one vest,a "fragmented" watch crys-
:. tai and a back.ache, big enough to divide among
the children of Israel. If you catch us on the
4 smooth. CLASSY, chilly, freezing, ,reacherous, de-
r %ceitful, and slip-uppery ice again, you'll know it
: If any one ever hears of our skating again, they
will please draw on US at sight for the bivalves
r and accompanying documents. We have got
"a through skating It's a ~humbug. It's q ~vexation Of
N spirit, of flesh, and tearer Of trousers! It's q
Q ad-bumping, back-aching, leg wearing, danger
d GUS institution, and We warn people against skat.
U ing. We tried it, and shan't be able to walk for
n a month. Skating clubs are a humbug, and all
If the rascally youngsters wish to get the ladies a,
it, that they may see-ifthey too, don't say the ice
At is dreadful cold It's nothing to us, but the lad
70 les will do we'll to let skates alone, unless they
70 are younger and more elastic than we are. Oh
how cold the ice is-pe can feel HyetP