The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-04
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gore as write.
i j needed n little healthful exercise and
was looking for Something that would
be full of vigorous enthusiasm, and at
the same time promote the healthful
flow of blood to the muscles. This was
rather difficult. 20 | tried most every
thing. but failed. Being sociable be.
ing Goke) wanted other people to
help me exercise, or go along with me
when exercised. Some men can 20
away TO a desert isle and have fun with
dumb bells and a horizontal bar, but to
me il would seem dull and common
place after while, and would yearn
for more humanity.
Two of us finally concluded to play
billiards, but we were only amateurs
and the owner intimated that he would
want the table for Fourth July, SO we
broke off in the middle of the first game
and paid for it.
Then a younger brother said he had a
set of boxing gloves in his room, and
although | was the taller and had long
er arms he would hold up as long as he
could and might hammer him until |
gained strength and finally got well.
accepted this offer because had Oft
en- regretted that / had notmade myself
familiar with this art and also because |
knew ii would create q thrill of interest
| and fire me with ambition and that S
what II hollow-eyedin invalid needs to put
him on the road to recovery.
The boxing glove is Il large fat nit
| ten with an abnormal thumb and a
string at the wrist by which you tie it
on, so that when you feed it to your adj
versary he cannot swallow it and choke
himself. had never seenany boxing
| gloves before, but my brother said they
we're soft and wouldn't hurt anybody.
| So we took off some of our raiment and
put them on. Then we shook hands. |
can remember distinctly yet that we
shook hands. That was to show that
we were friendly and would not Stay
each other.
My brother is a great deal younger
than | am and so warned him not to
| get excited and come for me with any
thing that would look like wild and I'M
lgovclnable fury because | might in the
heat of debate pile his jaw upon his
| forehead and fiji his ear full of sore
thumb. He said that was all right and
he would try to be cool and collected
Then We put out our right toes close
together and told him to be on his
guard At that moment ! dealt him a
terrific blow aimed at his nose, but
through clerical error Of mine il went
over his shoulder and spent itself in the
wall of the room SCATTERING small,
holly wood bracket for which | paid
him S3, rs afterward. did not wish to
buy the bracket because had two at
home, but he was arbitrary about it
and bought it.
| We then took another athletic pos
ture, and in two seconds the air was
full of poulticed thumb and buckskin
mitten. | soon detected chance to put
one in where my brother could smell of
it, but | never knew just where it struck,
| for at that moment l ran up against
something with the pit Of my stomach
that made me throw up the sponge
along with some other groceries, the
names of which | cannot now recall.
My brother then proposed that we
take off the gloves, but l thought that
had not sufficiently punished him, and
that another round would complete the
conquest, which was then almost with
in my grasp. took bismuth powder
and squared myself, but in wardine off
a left-hander, forgot about my adver-
sary's right and ran my nose into the
middle of his boxing glove. Fearing
that had injured him, retreated rap
idly on my elbows and shoulder-blades
to the corner of the room, thus giving
him ample time to recover. By this
means my younger brothers features
were saved and are to-day as symmet-
rical rs my own.
l can still cough up pieces of boxing
| gloves, and when | close my eyes can
see calcium lights and blue phosphor-
escent CLEANS across the horizon, but
am thoroughly convinced that there is
no physical exercise which yields the
same amount of health and elastic vigor
to the puncher that the manly art does.
To the punchec, also, il affords large
wad of glad surprises and nose bleed,
which cannot be hurtfu to those who
banker for the pleasing nervous shock
the spinal jar and the pyrotechnic con
cussion.
| That is why ! shall continue the cx.
ercises after | have practiccd with {
mule or COW catcher two or three
weeks, and feel little more confidence
in myself -BW Me-.