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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

Iss- THASKs.-The undersigned hereby ex-
presses for himself and relations his most heart
felt thanks to the people of Fairfax Court House
generally, and particularly to Mr. and Mrs. But
Ter and DR.. Whorter, for the kind attention and
care bestowed upon my brother, John E. How
ard during his late illness.
NH 2S.lt PHILIP HOWARD.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

Police REPORT, Affairs at police head
quarters were very quiet again this morning
W. II. Warder has been appointed by the
Mayor special policeman for the Fishtowu beat
during the fishing season.
Seven dodgers were accommodated at the
station house last night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

The MARKET, this morning, was not very
full aud the prices were without change from
last week. The butchers had good fresh meats
at former prices. The fish benches were well
supplied with fresh fish Of different varieties at
the rates which have prevailed Tor the last
n,nl-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28
Trouble Brewing.

LONDON, March IS. /, is FumorcI that
there is trouble between Rounanla and Turkey
growing out of the action of the former IN Tx
ing cusloms tariff with other European power
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

from number of citizens of Trieste, because 1t
contained reasonable sentiments towards Aus
tra, and that he will send to the Austrian gov
ernmeut formal disavowal of sympathy with
the address
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

5 HsHl E E if: :i eS T s5; 81
b., M TASS9 9vn sas es' s Ell r 7s Cargo
S S 1S5 with th fn sn 2a%s os f
Ps cent a Ammonia A With ss s
the crop F EiSs proper 'S Ass
s% &c S s't an dxe a ns
compounded largely Peruvian Gqspo which beyond its AmGonis
sFPsl y ms,s 5 bs9s dS"e 5 by the sn The
S SsG SSs ii. HST s
s 5S :ss% s h ssy from s % @ %
so a s RsHTs @
pounds ~ anu WILSON, Analytical Consulting
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, 1873
have sns sample Of aS Sssnshfn sua9o
Si S s with o 6s
Thn ds p 9w PS~s a aes n SsnS sTss
@ 5s a a l @ S s about B! as @ n Es" % Rs
which s8 s cent FS rSS6od A t E" s svs Sss
% Ps cent Of R eei rh nsa pAsp5s Gn ~b being
os voa a f Spf pcs s
;s s & mad" 7""""" ' " F. aGS4a that
11ator from Ereovs WA Sa!h1 vA August h 1873
Per y p ?ss 3 % % ;a "F
Dear Sir use. e,a. As4RnHH zagSgHH g?
7 r. f. S55s IT, %;,ns sS IES 5.
. y0 wd "o o." wheat last year. and CONSIDER equal any LEWIS
BEo4 A RUN sgAE 1 s FAy9y.Es co. va p s
@ F s sno row 1Se is s es %%
s s e. ns Ss' @ 49, sSS s5%ff44
rs-rhe Company
& s s e ro e A E ssas s ST aD' "5 mani
For anal ysi ndtedmon i apply
HOOE g. JOHN STON,
GENERAL ssON MERCHANTS,
jma NO. 2 PRINCE STREET ALEXANDRIA, VA
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

PALM SUNDAY-To, morrow will be the sixth
Sunday in Lent, or Palm Sunday, being the
Sun lay next preceding the great festival OF
che Christian Year Known as Easter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

TIE PASSOVER. To-day, being the Satur-
day proceeding the Hebrew festival Of the Pass
over which begins on next "Wednesday evening,
ing, is considered among the lsraelltes as the
great Sabbath, being, as it were a precursor OF
that great festival oi1he Hebrews, The servl-
crs Of the day all tend to remind the lsraeltes
of the near approach of the Passover.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

aEs~ In the monetary article in yesterday 5
Gazette, Virginia Coupons we're quoted at IA
a4S which was an error. They should have
ben quoted Is bid and II asked. Ex January
COUPONS are quoted at 4Iba4S
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

RAFrLE. The splendid musical box lately
on exhibition at the jewclry store of Mr.. W..
W. Adam. was rattl:d for and won, at the City
Hotel, last night, IN the presence of a large
crowd, by Mr.. Gus. Hall. There We're seventy
live chances at 81 each. Mcssrs Hall aud Z.
NJ. adams tied, each throwing A but in de-
tcrmuc which of the two should have the
box Mr.. Hall threw 80, and MIR. Adams 2S.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28
LOCAL NEWS.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. The WASHINGTON
Chronicle Of this morning says: Yesterday
afternoon about > o'clock Officer Markwood,
OF the 5th precinct. while patrolIlng Twelfth
street, between and D. northwest, noticed an
abandoned woman, whom he recognized as
jennie Javins, formerly of Alexandria, an ln-
mate of a disrcputable house kept by one Mary
Eckle, No 1850 q street, acting IN strange
manner He was about to go to her assistance
when he saw her raise small vial to her lips
and swallow its contents. She began to rec. and
aud gave every evidence ofiustautaneous effects
of the dose. The officer seeing the empty still
in her grasp, asked what it had contained. She
replied that it was full OF laudauum, and that
she had swallowed it because she Was unhappy
aud wanted 10 die. She was at ouce takeu to
her lodgings, and, being lail on sofa went
off into a profound slumber. Later in the
evening the doctor expressed hopes OF her re-
cOvery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28
DiSayOWAl.

ROME, March 2S.-It is reported that King
Victor Emanuel burnt the address sent to him
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

MEMORIAL MEETING AT a mceting at the
colored Odd Fellows Hall, last night, to take
further action in reference to the death Of the
late Charles Sumner, r. I. Taucil was called
to the chair and r. L. Mitchell chosen secretary.
j. \. Seaton explained that bcmcctng was
not called in opposition to any other meeting,
but that the colored people Of Alexandria
should not do less than those Of other places in
houoring the memory of Mr.. Sumner.
Committees were then appointed on time
and place Tor holding IA suitable memorial meet
i;s as follows: g. W. Simus, G. A. Lump
kius, Charles Seals, l.. Hurley, l.. Baltimore
K. q. Thompson, Il. Williams, j. Webster
aud j. Iaucil Also the following committee
on resolutions j 4. Scaton, r, H. Robinson,
L. L. Mitchell, james Nickens, &. l.. Seaton,
W. Miller and Il. +. Taucil.
Atier which the meeting adjourned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28


sun HosE............ 81 NOON $ ETs Il
sCE SETS. .......... ~
ARRIVED.
Steamer Lady of the Lake Norfolk, to A
Reed. She reports two vessels ashore on Ragged
Poin. and one ashore above Backiatones island,
and two buund up ut Liverpool Point.
Steamer Charlotte Vanderbilt, Baltimore, to
Hooe i Johnston.
schr Judge Hopkinson, Norfolk, 10 Smoot s.
Perry.
PASSED UP.
Schr Brsndywine, loaded.
SAILED.
Steamer George H Stout, Philadelphia by F
\ Reed
Steamer Pilot Boy, Curroman by F Reed.
PASSED DOWN.
Schrs julia Nelson and Cordclia Newkirk,
loaded
MEMORANDA.
Schr Trade Winds for this port, sailed from
Boston 18th.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

( ZONES GELATINE, Tapioca, Sage, Ar
~ row Root Corn Starch Aaccaroni, Pearl
Barley, Chocolate Cocoa Broma, &c, for sale
By [mh Isl j. & MlLBURN.
DATENT COAT-HOOkS, very cheap and
4 convenient, for sale by
NH d CHAS. s. TAYLOR, Jr.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28
TELEGRAPHIC NEW S.
she STATE TREASURER.

SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE GAzETTE.l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28
I'M p o rANr TO F Ar M Il r $!
ONLY $40 A TON.
GUANAHAN|, an IMPORTED NATURAL GUAA0!
A
Imp
GUANAHANI GUAN0 COMPANY, PETERSBURG, VA
tina

THE Company guarantees before offered le)
of Professor Lebigl
LABORATORY OF PROF B. WILSON, No 81
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

ELOWER SEED FROM LANDRETd re,
Il ceiv ed ard for sale by
NH u I. S. LEADBEATER s. BRO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28
LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the Alexandria, Va, Postoflice
March g, 1873.
Persons calling for letters will say they are ad,
vertised and give the date Of the list.
If not called for within thirty days. they will be
sent to the dead letter office in WaShington
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

| PORT OF ALEXAN DRlA MARCH 49, "A.
sun GosE........ 5 81 NOON SETS $50. ..... II
sCE SETS. go. ...... D ~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-28

DRANDY BRANDY!
ID Ju.t received fresh supply of RUCkS
PURE BRANDY, for medical purposes, which
l nm selling HI fifty cents per oottle-warrauted
pure ". FRANKLIN CREIGHTON,
NH 81 s. King street.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
Curious Origin of Quarrel Between
Dickens and Thackeray.

Edmund Yates has introduced the
new era into modern literature of the
personality painting novel. The late
n. P. Willis was to some extent its
pioneer, but it was left to Edmund
Yates to carry it to perfection. There
figured in London for some years past
person named Joseph Ady, who had
rather lucrative love of communicate
ing to vast number of people "some-
thing to their advantage" and whose
chambers, when searched by the police,
were found to contain the addresses
and descriptions of everyone whom he
had ever seen, with whom he had been
brought in contact; and not long since
a professional beggar was dragged to
light whose rooms were covered with
the names and addresses of distin-
guished charitarians, labeled, "Easily
gulled; - ga weakness for disabled
sailors lost leg at Trafalgar; good
for fver;'' and so forth. The study
of Mr.. Yates is, in a similar spirit and
taste, decorated with sketches of the
eyes and hair and casts of the chins and
noses of every person of any distinction
whom by accident ne may have en-
countered. Indeed one of his noses
got him into much trouble, and was the
cause of long, wordy war and social
estrangement between the two greatest
novelists of our time-Diokens and
Thackeray. Mr.. Yates ventured on
description of Mr.. Thackeray's nose, a
subject on which he was especially SEN
sitive. The slaughterer of snobs took
the part of his nose, Mr.. Dickens that
of it's painter. The conflict was only
Gained by the withdrawal of Mr.. Yates
from the Garrick Club.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
A Lesson i'm Aljectiyes.

"Well, my son, you have got into
grammar, have you ?" said proud sire
to his thickest chip the other night.
Z" Let me hear you compare some ad-
jectives.
Chip-"All right, dad. Little, less,
least big, least, NOW, more, most"
Proud Sire" Holden, sir that's not
right you"
C.-"Toe, tore, toast; snow, snore,
snout; go, goer, govt; row, roar, root. !"
P. s." Stop, [ say; those adj"
c." Drink, drank, drunk; chink,
chank, chunk"
P. S.-"You Internal little fool !
What in thunder"
c." Good, better, best; wood, wet
ter, wet; bad, wusser, worst; bile,
biler, bilerbust sew, sewer, sup pew
door, pupouch %! gemini! dad !
o-o-O-W!'
The outraged parent had broken into
the recitation with bootiack.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
Changing the Payday.

Some of the largest manufacturing
firms in England have changed pay day
from Saturday to Monday, and are rep
resented as being very well satisfied
with the results of the change. The
object is to remove from the working
men the temptations of q "holiday %
Immediately after they have been paid
their weekly wages, and having work
waiting for them on the morning follow
ing payday. M. Godin, Of Guise,
France, has improved on this system by
dividing his workmen into sections, with
different pay-days for each. He relies
upon the moral example of their fell
lows working steadily on to prevent
those who have just been paid from
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
How King Theodore of Abyssinia Died.

A few unarmed Abyssinians, at
tracted blythe clamor of music and
shouting, mustered courage enough to
approach the standard which waved so
gaily in the mountain gale; and on be-
holding one of their countrymen on the
ground, they bent over the body, but
quicklyrecoiled with fearful dismay on
their faces, exclaiming, "Todros :"
"Todros !"
The words attracted the attention of
every one, and together they strobe
toward the body, iostling each other in
the endeavor to obtain a glimpse of
him the natives styled "Todros, Ne
gus, Negashi of Utopia"
And what did they see? The body of
a native seemingly half famished, clad
in coarse upper garments, dingy with
wear and ragged with tear, covering I'M
dergarments of clean linen
The face of deep brown was the most
remarkable one in Abyssinia; it bore
the appearance of one who had passed
through many anxious hours. His
eyes, now overspread with deathly
film, gave evidence yet of the piercing
power for which they were celebrated.
The mouth was well defined and thin
Tipped. The lower lip was we'll adapted
to express scorn, and trace of it was
still visible. AS he gasped his last, two
rows of whitish teeth were disclosed.
Over his mouth two strong lines arched
to high aquiline nose. The nostrils
expanded widely as he struggled to re-
tain the breath which was rapidly
leaving him. The face was broad, high
cheek boned, with high, prominent
forehead and overhanglng eyebrows.
The hair was divided into three
large plaits extending from the fore
head to the back of the neck, which
latter appeared to be very tower of
strength. The body measured five feet
eight inches, and was very muscular
and broad-chested. There was char
acter about the features denoting great
irmness or obstinacy mingled with
ferocity; but perhaps the latter idea
was suggested upon remembering the
many cruelties ascribed to him. And
thus was it that we saw the remains of
him whom men called Theodorus, En-
peror of Abyssinia, the Descendant Of
Menilek Son of Solomon, King of
Kings, Lord of Earth, Conqueror of
Ethiopia, Regeneration of Africa, and
Saviour of Jerusalem, now dying
dead by his own hand
The Irish soldiers took hold of his
leg and roughly dragged him to ham
mock, where, after two or three gasps,
he breathed his last. --StanIey's Coo
7710ssie at M0Qd0I0.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27

has confessed you have ruined her recanta-
ton and retractlon Of the truth for your mere
personal safety-that won't save you
At that interview he admitted with grief
and sorrow the fact of his sexual relations
with Mrs. Tilton, expressed some indignation
that she had not told him that she had told
her husband, and that in consequence of
being in ignorance of that fact he had been
walking upon a Volcano
said: i" Mr.. Beecher, want that recanta-
ton; have come for it." "Well," said he,
"what shall do without it?" replied: II
don't know; | can tell you what will happen
with it," He asked: $ What will you do if
give it to you?" answered: Ct will keep it
ably, will protect it with my life, as would
protect the other with my life. Mr.. Tilton
asked for that confession this morning, and I
said: will never give it to you; you shall
not have it from my hands until have ex-
hausted every effort for peace"
Mr.. Beecher gave me back the paper.
x
Having now placed before the committee
my statement OF facts concerning Mrs. Tilton
and documentary evidence that I have to
support them, and as they are Numerically
opposed to nearly all that Mrs. Tilton APP
pears to declare in her published statement, I
deem it my duty to myself and my position in
this terrible business, to say that during this
affair Mrs. Tilton has more than once admit
ted to me, and to another person to my knowl-
ledge, whom | do not care to bring into this
controversy, the fact of her sexual relations
with Beecher, and she has never once denied
them other than in the written papers pre-
pared for a purpose which / have already ex-
hibited; but, on the contrary, the fact OF such
criminal intercourse being we'll understood by
Beecher, Tilton, and Mrs. Tilton to have
taken place, my whole action in the matter
was based upon the existence of that fact, and
was al endeavor faithfully carried out by me
in every way possible to protect the families
of both the parties from The consequences of
public disclosure Of Mrs. Tilton's admitted
infdelities to her husband.
If any evidence was needed that | was en-
deavoring to the latest hour to prevent the
publication of all these documents and that
retained the confidence of at least one of the
parties in that endeavor, / produce letter of
July IS. 1874, being a note arranging y meet
ing between myself and Beecher in regard to
this controversy:
"July 10, 1874,
''MY DEAR FRANK: I will be with you at
7, or o little before am ashamed to put a
straw more upon you, and have but a single
conclusion-that the matter cannot distress
you long, as it must soon end. That is, there
will be no more anxiety about the future
whatever regrets there may be in the past.
Truly yours, and ever, H. w. BEECnER."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Wash-Day.


Yves hang'n' out our wash'n',
Don't you see our teenty lines?
Ghe shoestring one is BRIDES,
The other one is mine.
We alters wash on Monday,
Cause gran'ma alters does
And the coolest ways to housekeep
guess our granma knows.
We've got teenty washboard,
And cunnin' little tub,
does most all the rins'n',
Cause Birdie loves to rub.
tell you she piles soap on
Most more than Bridget does
To do dreat, big washn';
But Bridget never knows.
She'd scold us worse than fifty
If she should find it out;
But we's centrally pretty quiet,
And she don't know what we're bout,
If mamma'd come and see us,
spect she'd scold some more,
Cause we've wetted up our sashes,
And stopped the pantry floor.
We've crinkled up our fingers
Till they look as gran mas do;
And Birdie stopped some soapsuds
Right on my new blue shoe.
We set it in the oven
I guess it'll dry right soon,
There, we've done this dreat big wash'n'
And hung it out fore noon.
Youths Companion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
BOUQUETS at Dinner.

The Saratoga san gives the following
as a dinner-table feature adopted by
some of the hotels at that resort cat
every plate the snow-white napkins,
tastefully folded, are placed in the
clear cut-glass goblets, and carefully
disposed in every napkin is beautiful
little button-hole bouquet. These are
intended for the guests and are cheer
fully appropriated. The effect, both
while the bouquets embellish the nap
kins, and after they have been trans
ferred to the button-hoies Of the gen
tlemen's coats and to the bosoms of the
ladies' dresses, is very pretty and
pleasing. The Sunday bill of fare is
handsomely illuminated, and, being so
pretty, all of them are carried away
from the tables as a sort of souvenir
ALFRED GERALD, of Providence. R.
l., asked George r. Whipple, a halter.
to sell him hat on Sunday. Whipple,
in the way of favor, complied. When
a bill was sent to Gerald he refused to
pay it, on the ground that business
transactions on Sunday are illegal. and
consequently the debt was not collect
able. The case has been tried in court
the decision being tAat Gerald by sub
sequently acknowledging the debt had
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
Z" Onery, ORGY, Ickory, Ann,
Fillisin, Follisum, Nichlas, John,
Evy, Quavy,
English Navy,


Stinkilum, Stankulum, Buck!'
Now, there are those who would like
to know what sense there is in all that
and what the mystery connected with
these pOrtentOus words. And also
in this, another mode of counting out ::
"Occa, bocca,
Bona croka,
Occa, bocca, tuce! J"
Or in this, which is considerably less
elegant, though possibly more slgnif-
cant, than the two preceding:
link, pink,
How you do stink!'
The future bellies of the Queen City,
1t must be confessed, use the same saw
age methods in making their election of
"Who's it ?" etc. The girls have also
a good many incomprehensible chants
and songs of their own. The starting
point is, of course, "ring around the
rosy pot" for it is an utter impossibility
for girls-that is, small and real girls
to play anything very long that does not
require clasping of hands and their
circling about with some outlandish
chant. The favorite song is:
Green gravel.
Green gravel,
How greeA the grass grows;
And all the creation
Is ashamed to be seen,
Dear Annie, dear Annie,
Your true love is dead
He sent you letter,
So turn back your head"
Whereupon the dear Annie in question
reverses her top-knot to the balance of
the circle and continues to go round in
that position until the dreadful tidings
OF the decease of the true love of "Dear
Lizzie, Dear Louie" are conveyed to
them respectively; and they, in turn,
reverse themselves In honor of the de-
parted. When the whole list of names
IN the circle is exhausted, and the be-
reaved objects of so much pure affection
are in mourning together, the game is
played over again.
If there chance to be any youthful
representatives of the male sex about
with whom the young ladies are on good
terms, the chant is sometimes varied
thus, the circling performance never
ceasing for an instant
Little Minnie Tun,
A sitting in the sun,
weeping and crying for young man:
Rise, Minnie; rise, Minnie,
Wipe away your tears;
Look to the East and look to the West
And look to the one that you love best.
And Minnie Immediately casts a
languishing look upon some Young
shaver among the boys; who, in re-
spouse, as quickly assumes m elancholy
air, breathes hard couple of times, and
attempts a simultaneous DISPLAY of all
his jewelry.
But this is getting off the main sub
Ject-boys. The lives of most of the
great heroes, philosophers and states
men that have figured in the worlds
history have been written, the "self-
made men" of the country have been
run through Hoe press several thou
sand times and the future of promising
youths throughout the land has been
horoscoped somewhat extensively. But
who shall write up the youth Of our dis
t1ngulshed soldiers and statesmen and
moneyed-men ? There are many gentle
men of celebrity in this vicinity whose
Juvenile experience would pan out
handsomely, but we are afraid none of
them would be so frank and outspoken
on the subject as Col. Richard Holland,
now of Harrodsburg, KY, but Gin
cinnatian 'tborn and raised" The
Colonel admits having been the wicked
est bow in Cincinnati. He was a Lock
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
AS to BOys-Their Barbarisms, Superstf-
tiOns and Wickedness.

AS to BOys-Their Barbarisms. Superstf-
tiOns and Wickedness.
There are persons of suspected intel
ligence in this fair city of Cincinnati
who hold to the heathenish opinion that
boy, considered apart from his family
relations, andregarded simplyas social
phenomenon, is the most curious out
growth of the civilization of which we
boast. And they are queer enough to
commence arguing in favor of that opin-
ion by reference to the superstitions
of the young idea. They want to know,
for instance, whence boy derives the
settled conviction that resin on the
hands breaks the force of the school
masters blows that all eye-winker
placed in the center of the palm is sure
to split the pedagogue's rattan that
the incautious handling of toads leads
to warts, and that white bean planted
in the dark of the moon under brick,
near some house water-spout, removes
them. Far be it from us to attempt an
explanation of these strange ideas, but
it is certain that they have been enter
tanned through generation after genera
ton of boys, and no doubt any urchin
that ever sported a knuckle dabber,"
a "pottery," or crystal" that ever
mumbled the peg" or played "leap-
frog" can account for them to the entire
satisfaction of any impartial inquirer.
What really is puzzling to the adult
mind is whence the boys originally OBJ
tanned their barbarous methods of
3" counting gu" for catcher, " " fox"
or any of those pleasant juvenile games
requiring feetness of foot and asecretive
For instance, lot of boys
will get together to play at some of their
games, and one of them will start out to
see who's it." He will go through
great rigmarole of words, applying one
word to each as he designates him by
tap on the breast, and the last one so hon
ored is sit, y as they call the catcher"
as thus