The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-05-24
OUTDOOR SPORTS.

OUTDOOR SPORTS.
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The season has now arrived when
outdoor sports are apropos. The cater
has turned over in bed and uttered q
warning shrek, and big green worms
are skylarking around on the shade
trees aud betting on their chances of
dropping down behind q mans coat
collar.
One of the leading lawn sports is
called "Push and Cut" 1t Is played
with a machine called lawn mower.
These machines are neatly put up,
beautifully painted, and will make
racket in any climate. The player
seizes them by convenient handle
and pushes them towards the grass on
a trot. The game is to find an old
hoop-skirt, paint keg, oyster can or
catsup bottle in the grass. After two
or three lessons the player will be
amazed at his good luck In finding
these things and making tally.marks.
the machine when it strikes an old
beef-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 a corner
off his chin, or bang his chest-bone
back into n corner.
Another interesting lawn game is
played as follows: At the supper table
the wife remarks
"James, I want $40 to fix up my
summer silk. Don't go away without
leaving it.'
James makes no reply, but manages
to slip out of the house unseen. He Is
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 talk about moths.
"You walk back here and hand over
that cash, or I'll send for my mother
to come and stay all summer -
According to the rules of tho game
he turns and looks at her and mutters
to himself:
"That willis me!'
ssThe idea of your skulking off like
that ~ she continues, when he ad-
vances, hands out the "X," and If he
can convince her that he had as soon
give her $50 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. 1t is played altogether by
married people. Nine o'clock having
arrived, and the husband not having
reached home, the indignant wife nails
down the windows, locks all the doors,
and goes to bed feeling as if she could
smash her partner in a minute and a
half. Along about eleven O'Clock
Charles Henry begins to play his part
in the game. He is suddenly seen un-
der 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.:
ssNice way to treat me because l
found 4 stranger on the walk with
broken leg and took him to the hos
pital."
AS the rain comes harder he boldly
climbs the front steps and rings the
is opened, hand reaches out and pulls
on:
"Oh! you vile wretch ~
"Darling, whazz mazzer-whaz iz 1t,
darling?"
"Don't darling me. Here it is almost
daylight, and I've shivered and treIn-
bled, and brought on a nervous fever
which may carry me to my grave."
"Darling, found leg on sidewalk
wiz broken man, and"
This game is always won by the
wife.
Another, and the last outdoor game
to be described here, is called, "Wait-
ing for Her Darling" A woman waits
for her husband to spade up Il flower
bed. The Eastern question absorbs his
whole time; she goes out to weld the
spade herself. The game is very brief.
She tries to dig in the spade by press
ing 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