Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-07-18
Out-Door Sports.

The season has now arrived whel
outdoor sports are apropOs. The cat
erpillar has left his den, the mosquito
has turned over in bed and uttered |
warning shrek, and big green worm
are SIX ylarking around on shade trees
and betting on their chances of drop
ping down behind 8 mans Goa
collar.
An interesting lawn game Is played
as follows:
At the supper table the wife remarks
james, want $40 to fix up my sum
mer silk. Don't go away without
leaving It,
James makes no reply, but manage;
to slip out of the house unseen. He Is
stealing softly across the lawn to jumE
over the fence at the corner, when hi:
wife comes rushing out and exclaims
James! James! see here.'
He begins to squint into cherry
tree and talk about moths.
You walk back here and hand over
that cash, or will send for my mother
10 come and stay all summer
According to the rules Of the game
he turns and looks at her and mutter:
to himself:
That willis met
THE idea Of you skulking off like
thstp she continues; when he advances
hands out the *, and, il he can con.
vince her that he had as soon give her
$40 rs $40, he wins the game.
Another outdoor game Is played
between 10 o'clock in the evening and
midnight, In order to avoid the heat
OF the sun. 1t is played altogether by
married people. Nine o'clock having
arrived, and the husband hot having
reached home, the indignant wife nails
down the windows, locks all the doors
and goes to bed, feeling as II she could
smash her partner in q minute and 9
half. Along about IL O'Clock Charles
Henry begins to play his part in the
game. He is suddenly seen under the
kitchen window. 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 a stranger on the walk with q leg
broken and took him to the hospital
AS the rain comes harder, he boldly
climbs the front steps and rings the
bell. Alter about ten minutes the door
is opened, hand reaches out and pulls
him into the hall, ,and the game goes on:
oh, you vile wretch!'
'Jarling, whsz mazzer-Whaz IL 1t,
Jariing?'
Don't darling me. Here it is almost
daylight, and I've shivered and trem.
bled, and brought on nervous fever
which may carry me to my grave!
'Jarling, 1 found leg on the side
walk wiz broken man, and!
This game is always won by the
wife.
Another, and the last out>door game
to be described here, is called Waiting
for Her Darling A woman waits fol
her husband to spade up flower bed
The Eastern question Obs0rbs his whole
time. She goes out to WELD the spade
herself. The game is very brief. She
tries to dig in the spade by pressing
with both feet at once, and when she
gets up and dashes into the house she
realizes that she rolled over three times
and barked her nose against the iron
vase, and that four carriages were right
opposite the house at the time. She
may have speech to deliver when her
husband COMES to dinner, but hel
husband wins the gsme-it Ia 80 in the
rules.-DetrOit Free Press.