Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-01-26
DOEyTICKS, A ZOUAyE.

sleeves to them for trowsers; with an en-
broidered and braided bag for vest with
n cap lie red wooen sauce pan; with
yellow boots like fourth robber in a
stage play; with u roustache like two half
pound paint brushes, and with a sort Of
sword gun or gun-sworl for weapon,
that looks like the result of love affair
between an enormous broai- Sword and a
lonely musket, indiscreet and tender-th.,
is u Iouave.
A fellow Who can "put mp" hundred
and ten pound dumb bell; who can climb
up an eighty foot rope, hand over hand,
with barrel of -four hanging to his heels
who can do tue giant swing on horiz-
ontal bar with City six FOUNDER tied to
each ANGLE who can walk up four lights
Of stairs, holding a heavy man in each
hand, at arms length; who can climb
creased pole, feet first, carrying barrel
of pork in his tee.h-that is Xouave.
A fellow who can jump seventeen feet
four inches high without d spring- board {;
who can tie his legs in q double bow knot
round his neck, without previously soften.
ing his shin bones in steam bath who
can walk BlondIns out door tight rope
with his stomach outside of nine brandy
cocktails, a SUIT Of chain armor outside
his stomach, and stiff north east gale
outside OF that who can set a forty foot
! I,,l l., bnl |, = l.
| il, and shoot pigeons on the wing, one al
time, just behind the eye, with single
| barreled Minnie rife three hundred yards
distant, and never miss a shot Yho can
| ta6s a five shooting revolver in each hand
and knock the spots ous .! the ten Of
diamonds at eighty PAGES, turning somer-
souIts all the time and firing eyary shot in
the air--that is Zcuave.
| am Louaye
My musket education prograsses-i am
getting along finely can tell The mu7ze
from the stock at first sight, and shall
soon b a5,e to say which end of the ram
rod to put down, and which side up the
cartridge goes.
But | am paying more attention to ny
! gymnastics Just at present than 70 my
musket, for everybody knows that in
battle arms are not of nearly so much
Importance as leg<-it is very good
thing to understand the use OF your legs
i'll case Of war
I've got practicing room where gym
nastic every day. I've taken up the car.
pct--a performance which my andiady
entirely approves-lve piled the chairs
| ,.,, { H., J. la. ,,l
so1 my bed at auclon-Louavrs sleep Oh
| the floor.
Besides, it is good thing 20 know how
| to sleep without b"j-in case Of war
Spinkey and his brother came to see
my room after had got it arranged for
practice they did thsngs-they Iomaved
little, by the way Of setting ne an *.
ample
found out by the actions ofthe Spinkey
brothers the exact dimensions Of my room
it is three Zip flaps long. and a hand
spring and two back s3mcrsauts wide
BY means Of a flip flap yon disconcert
your enemy's aim and draw his FIRE, th5n
you Kill him \ flip flap is good thing
| to do-in case Of war.
| BY means of handspring. you reverse
! your position and ycur bewi,del I'd enemy
cuts OF your foot instead Of yvur i'qI--
Then yoa XII hun; then you screw on
! wooden leg, and do so again. Waen waive
done it twre. You have have killed. twO
enemies aud only lost two legs; aud after
that you can only lose woud"a iegs. which
are comparatively cheap. especially if the
war is in well tiM Tered country
bn sr,~5rfr u 'guft u g i,sre, tn i
in Gaze Of war
81 means OF Il forward somersau,t, you
leap over your cuemy, when h. charges
on You; thea, Ly a back som"rsauIt, YOU
fall on his head from 4 great Aeigh; and
stua him; then you xii him.
A >omers-ujt is an jnd.sTensiL,e n.a,
noervre--ia case Of war.
Our company Piukey comm"ad.ng-
can 20 through the manuel O! arm, oom-
pete, ana Only touch ground three times
they do all the 10 dug III s'ug t sJner
s"uI;, springirg into the air At the word
"up! with their muskets empty. and
loading exactly together at the word Of
command. given by apinkey with speak
ing trumpet, ana firing BY lies Us they
come down
When Spin&ey left my room, began to
practice, for | IN very anxious to pr"gre>s
Oar company has been all drafted into
kerrigau's Contingent, aud we must all
De ready.
Tried a somersault first, as thought it
looked very easy. All you have 10 DO is
to throw your heels up and your head
down, and then bring your head up and
your heels down ; its the easiest thing in
worid--apparently. When came to try
it, thong 1T that the floor looked unusual
ly hard, SO put pillow in the spot where
| thought my feet wouid come down, as |
didn't want TO hure my heels. Then llo9k
off tay coat, tied my suSpendrrs tightly
round my waist, took a short run from the
corner Of the reom, shut my eyes, and
n X "
When recovered, which should Judge
WAS III about three quarters OF an hour, |
had a bump or Gy forehead AS if I'd been
hit there b. n base ball, which had stuck.
1t took me fifteen minutes to get up on
my feet, for | felt as II my legs and arms
had been distributed over the NEG boring
country by a gunpowder explosion; and it
was some etus b fore my mind was dIsa
based OF that Impression.
| Judge that something interlered to
proven. the artistic execution Of my con
temp!atci somersault, for my head evil
IDENTIFY struck the ground as soon as my
heels went up. My nose had received
severe confusion and the results were, a
map Of some unknown country sdone in
red on my shirt front, two vest pockets full
Of blood, and my hair SO stuck with the
same fluid that had to get my head
cropped like prize tighter Whether |
broke the window with my head as | went
lnwn or with INV ha.Is wh.p | CANA nm