Daily globe., 1878-07-21
Outdoor Sports for the Season.

Frze1td, V2efl7aG.
Outdoor Sports for the Season.
The season has now arrived when out
door sport are apropos. The caterpillar
has left his den, the masquito has turned
over in his den and uttered a warning
shrek, and big green worms are skylark-
ing around on shade trees and betting on
their chances of dropping behind mans
coat-collar.
One of the leading lawn sports is
called "Push and cut" It played with
machine called lawn mower. These
machines are neatly put up, beautifully
painted. and will make a racket in any
climate. The payer seizes them by q
convenient handle and pushes them to-
wards the grass on trot. The game is
to find an old hoopskirt, paint-keg, oys-
ter-can or catsup bottle in the grass. Af-
ter two or three lessons the player will
be amazed at his good luck in finding
these things and making tally marks.
Some players take flying leap over the
machine when it hits an old bone
in the grass, but the rules of the game
are liberal in this respect. The player
can, if he prefers, rush against the handle
and knock corner off his chin or bang
his chest bone back into corner
Another interesting lawn game is play
d as follows: At the supper table the
wife remarks:
''James, want $40 to fix up my sum-
mer silk. Don't go away without leav-
ing it."
James makes no reply but manages to
slip out of the house unseen. He is seen
stealing softly across the lawn to jump
over the fence at the corner, when his
wife comes rushing out and exclaims:
james James! See here!"
He begins to squint into a cherry tree
and talks about moths.
"You walk back here and hand over
that cash or III send for my mother to
come and stay all summer!'
According to the rules Of the game he
turns and looks at her, and mutters to
himself:
''That willis me!
''The idea Of your sku!king off like
thatH' she continues, when he advances,
hands out the ''X, % and if he can convince
her that he had as soon give her $40 as
$40, he wins the game.
Another outdoor game is played be-
tween ten o'clock in the evening and
midnight, in order to avoid the heat of
the sun. It is played altogether by
married people. Nine o'clock having az
rived and the husband not having reach
ed home, the indignant wife nails down
the windows, locks the doors, and goes to
bed feeling as if she could smash her
partner in a minute and half. Along
about eleven o'clock Charles Henry be-
gins to play his part in the game. BE is
suddenly seen under one of the kitchen
windows. He seeks to raise it. He tries
another and another, but the sash won't
lift. Then he softly tries all the doors,
but they are locked. The rules Of the
game allow him to make some remarks
at this juncture, and it generally begins
to rain about this moment. AS he gets
under the shelter of the garden rake he
muses.
''Nice way to treat me because found
stranger on the walk with broken leg
and took him to the hospital"
| AS the rain comes harder he boldly
climbs the front steps and rings the bell
After about ten minutes the door is
| opened, hand reaches out and pulls him
into the hall, and the game goes on:
ooh! you vile wretch''
"Darling, whaz mazzer-whaz is it
jarling2" !
"Don't darling me. Here it is almost
daylight, and I've shivered and trembled
and brought on nervous fever which
may carry me to the gravel"
'Jarling, l found a leg on the sidewalA
wiz broken man and"
This game is always won by the wife
Another, and the last, outdoor gam
to be described here, is called 'Waitlng,
for her Darling" A woman waits 20
her husband to spade up the fower-bed
The Eastern question absorbs his who'll
time. She goes out to WELD the spad
herself. The game is very brief. Sh'
tries to dig in the spade by pressing will
both feet at once, and when she gets VI
and dashes it into the house she realize
that she rolled over three times, ane
barked her nose against the iron vase ant
that four carriages were right oppos
ite the house at the time. She may hav
speech to deliver when her husband
comes to dinner, but the husband win
the game-it is so in the rules