The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-04
Fraternal Sharing,

| haNc Hllcu my Nose WIN COTTON WASH
so that shall not soak this sketch IL
gore as | write.
l-needed ~ little healthful exercise ant
was looking for something that woulc
be full Of vigorous enthusiasm, and n
the same time promote the healthfu
flow of blood to the muscles. This wa,
rather difficult tried most every
thing but failed Being a sociable be
ing Goke) ! wanted other people tc
help me exercise, or go along with mt
when exercised Some men can &C
away TO desert isle and have fun will
dumb-bells and horizontal bar, but &c
me it 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 minated that he would
want the table for Fourth of fully, so we
broke of in the middle of the first game
and paid for it. ...
Then 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 not made myself
familiar with this art and also because
knew it would create thrill of interest
and fire me with ambition aud that
what hollow-eyedinvalid needs to put
him on the road to recovery.
The boxing glove is large fat nit
ten with IN abnormal thumb and a
string at the wrist by which YOU tie ii
on, so that when you feed it to your adj
verSaly he cannot swallow it and choke
himself had never seen any boxing
gloves before, but my brother said they
were 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 vet that we
shook hands. That was to show that
we were friendly and would not slay
each other.
My brother is 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
govelnable fury because might in the
heat of debate pile his jaw upon his
forehead and fill 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 a clerical error of mine it went
over his shoulder and spent itself in the
wall of the room SCATTERING a small,
holly wood bracket for which | paid
him 1915 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 poultccd 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 | 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 of the gloves, but I 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 warding 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
we're saved and are to-day as syinmet-
rlcal as my own,
| can still cough up pieces of boxing
gloves, and when | close my eyes can
see calcium lights and blue phosphor-
cscent 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.
10 the punchee, also, it affords large
wad OF glad surprises and nose bleed,
which cannot be hurtful to those who
banker for the pleasing nervous shock,
the spinal jar and the pyrotechnic con-
cussion.
That is why shall continue the ex-
erciscs after have practiced with
mule or cow-catcher two or three
weeks, and feel little more confidence
| in myself. Bill Nue..