Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-07-11
OUTDOOR SPORTS.

The season has now arrived when
outdoor sports are apropos. The
caterpillar has left his den, the mos
quito has TUNED over in bed and ut
tered a warning shrek, and big green
worms are skylarking around on
shade-trees, and betting on their
chances of dropping down behind a
man coat-collar. .a7 b 81 o,3
A, interesting lawn game is played
as follows: .s
At the supper table the wife re-
marks: .j =. &. 5-..
flames, 1 want $40 to fix up my
summer silk. Don't go away with
out leaving it,
James makes no reply, but mana
ges 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 cherry
tree and talk about moths.
"Ycu walk back here and hand
over that cash, or I'll send fer my
mother to come and stay all sum-
mer!'
According TO the rules of the game,
he turns aud looks at her, and NUT
ters to himself: .s .......
"That willis me!"
'sThe idea of your skulking off like
that!" she continues; when he ad-
vances, hands out the *" 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
between 10 O'Clock in the evening
and midnighI, in order to avoid the
heat of the sun. 1t is played alto
gether by married people. Nine
O'Clock having arrived, and the hus-
band not having reached home, the
indignant wife nails down the win
dows, locks all the doors, and goes
to bed feeling as if she could smash
her partner in minute and a half.
AlCng about l o'clock Charles Hen
ry begins to play his part in the game.
He is suddenly seen under the kitch-
en- window. He seeks to raise it..
He tries another and other, 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 q
broken leg, and took him to the hos
lpital.'
AS the rain comes harder, he bold
| ly climbs the front steps and rings
the bell, After about ten minutes
the door is opened, a hand reaches
out and pulls him into the hall, and
the game goes on:
80 you vile wretch!'
"Jarling, whaz mazzer-whaz il it,
Ijarling?"
''Don't darling me. Here it is al
most daylight and I've shivered and
trembled and brought on a nervous
fever which may carry me to my
gravel"
''Jarling, / found leg on the side.
walk wiz broken man, and
This game is always won by the
wife.
| Another, and the last outdoor
game to be described here, is called
"Waiting for Her Darling" A wo.
man waits tor her husband to spade
up fiower-bed. The Eastern Ques.
ton absorbs his whole time. She
1 goes ont To WELD the shade 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 re.
alizes 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 a speech to deliver
when her husband comes to dinner,