Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-23
{" CroQuet."

We noticed few days since croquet party amusing themselves at that pokiest of games, in the East Park: Will the epidemic rage again, as it did last year till all Litchfeld clicked like vast billiard saloon."-Enqutrer.
 a Now, Mir: Editor isn't that perfectly awful! That "pokaest of games!" Poky, according to Webster, means dull, !" stupid" Why it's enough to make ones blood h boil Croquet, darling croqnet the ly. He says that just to spite us. It's pure ma levolence. He shows it in his eyes. We've watched him often glaring at us over the fence in the East Park. It's perfectly horriblel One would think him an ogre ready to eat us up. He looks as if he begrudged us every minute of pleasure. Things have come to pretty pass indeed if we must give up our amusements just because they don't suit hinl Wouldn't his majesty be pleased to have us sit in the house all our days and play with rag ba- bes and paper dolls instead of taking the healthfu recreation in the open air which croquet insures Perhaps he thinks his horrid surs are going to in- fuence us. We can assure him that the epidem- ic" scM rage again this year. Croquet is to us | cessity. What would life be without it? Then, with the present style of chignon, those charming croquet hats are SO becoming! He'll be finding fault with them next. We look for almost anything from him now.
 [Ertract from tue Reo,onstrance of Mss C. 4.
 Snaahson and 129 others l-Lachield Sentinel.
 To the six score and ten young ladies of Litchfeld, who, regardless of our constant admiration of themselves and of our con- stant advocacy of their rights, have thus gone over to our common enemy, the bach elor editor and proprietor of the Litchfield Sentinel, we have word to say:
 Such document as he has induced you, in your rage, to sign Although ostensi- bly, aimed at us how it ibels you Bache- lordom, you are no doubt aware, is kind of Conservatism, resting on it's traditions of feminine affectations, feminine frivolities, and feminine superlatives, for justification. Hear this particular scoffing fossil G Da,- ling croquet, '' He knows it is DeyJectly 1ore- w," Its pe,JscAy horrible, "One would think him an ogre ready to eat us up," 'sHis ho'rid slurs, Those charming croquet hats are; so becoming" Is that yom' style, or that of the impenitent old sinner, your new champion ? Here, now, is some downright villainy. Wouldn't his majesty be pleas ed to have us sit in the house all our days aud play pih rag babies and pape, dolls in stead &c." Till you learned croquet, last year, and during the whole of last winter, were such your amusements What else can the 5OOOO readers of the Sentinel infer?
 And such an instrument you, the young ladies of Litchfeld, have subscribed to the number of one hundred and thirty If, before this summer is out one or more of you don't bring him on his knees in the dust, even in his most spotless garments and if you don't immediately send us full reports for publication, we shall begin to consider you one hundred and thirty as arrant hum bugs as he has made you all appear. Last year, remember, the wretch played croquet all the season, and then told on you :- The evening was bright with the moon of May, And the lawn was light as though lit by day From the windows looked-to see Croquet. Of mallets and balls the usual display,
 The hoops all stood in arch array,
 And said to myself, soon we'll see Croquet.' But the mallets and balls uuheeded lay.
 And the maid and the youth side by side sat they, And thought to myself, Is that Croquet?
 I saw the scamp-it was light as day
 Put his arm around her waist in loving way And he squeezed her hand Was that Croquet? While the red rover rolled forgotten away, He whispered all that lover should say,
 And he kissed her ips-,chata a queer Croquet? Silent they sat heath the moon of May;
 But knew by her bushes she said not Nay; And thought in my heart, now hats Croquet.' Sentinel, Aug. 24, 1866.
 Now for the campaign of 1867 ! A hun dred and thirty to one on the young ladies of Litchfeld