Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-03-01

Seeing the BOYS Through.

TO be there"
The more the member of sour own
thought of it the more he thought he
did want to be there. If there is one
thing more than another that he likes,
in this world, it is to see stout, able
bodied man, deep in a best-two-in-three
hips-and-shoulder to touch, catch-as-
catch-can wrestle, with pair of roller
skates.
Long before "our own reached the
door, at the head of delegation of
would-be skaters, rumbling sound,
broken occasionally by an exceedingly
feminine shrek told that the fun had
commenced.
| Once past the cerberus who guarded
the door and exchanged pieces of red
pasteboard for hard cash the reporter
had q chance TO look about him.
The first sight his eyes lighted on,
after lodging fellow with two small
carts on his feet, who seemed to have q
desire to go clear through into Coolies
furniture rooms, was Doe Odgers pain
fully making his way up the hall. The
look on Docs face led the faberite to
think that his genial friend had been
too kindly cared for at the supper table,
and he was about to suggest pepper
mint, witch hazel, or something sooth-
ing, when the object of his sympathy
gave q sudden start followed up with q
series of gymnastic performances that
located the seat of the trouble at once
1t was another bad case of eartwheels.
After skillfully lodging several in
dividuals who seemed on the point of
rapturously embracing him 'our own
reached a reserved seat and from this
coign of advantage took in the situation.
A rafting CHATTER and heavy jar
just as he got settled led him to rise
suddenly, but he took his seat again as
he saw the manly form of Charley
Lisherness arising in a cloud of dust.
Charley had been knocked out of time
on the first round that was all
The pencil shower did not have time
to extend sympathy to Charley for being
so down in his luck before an erratic
figure shot across his line of vision and
Ed Streeter went gyrating, in eccentric
curves, across the floor. The reporter
was just on the point of offering his
neighbor five to ten that the skates would
win the match when Ed made ire
mendous effort, seemed first on the
point of doing an india-rubber act back
wards then practiced the oriental salaam
and brought to alongside the wall BY
the way it was wonderful what an affinity
this wall seemed to have for the most
of the voyagers. 1t offered more COM
Portable protection to the square inch
than any similar showing of pine planks
that the reporter had ever seen before.
Hardly had he recovered his equan-
imity-and seeing there was no chance
of any fiery skater richchetting in his
direction-turned to address a few words
of conversation to young lady near by,
when he was unceremoniously bumped
aside and Jim. McGonigal and Will.
Richards slid frantically by, clutching
each other in q vain attempt to recover
their equilibrium. VIII. had look on
his face as if he had discovered bad
egg in the last dozen he had sold, while
Jim's countenance seemed to say as
plain as words could say it that he had
lost all faith in worldly things. By dint
of a vast amount of athletic exercise and
a display of balancing that would have
put a tight-rope performer to blush,
they made the grand rounds. Success,
however, begat confidence. and conf
dence begat carelessness, and careless
ness ruin, for the next view the scribe
had was of waving rollers, cloud of
dust and a pile of struggling bodies.
The fun was becoming too thick for
comfort, risibles and ribs ached. OF
course it was naughty, but everybody
but the mourners thought it awful nice
to see the mighty Frustrated
The Faberite was about to make a
quotation, when Benedict appeared on
the floor and scared the words into the
next century
The anxiety depicted on 'Ben's' face
was fearful to behold. He couldn't have
felt worse if he had heard of drop
in sugar just after he had bought big
bill-speaking of drops just at this time,
a pair of number Fights went wildly into
the air and 'Dolph Schreiner reversed
positions with a jar that raised the whole
crowd from their seats. But to return
to Ben, " who said he was going on as
q green hand. He needn't have sent
out posters in advance to state that fact,
and the inevitable was surely approach
ing when some of the boys took pity on
him and towed him off to a safe an
chorage, not however without some
earnest protestations on the part of the
skates.
BY this time the racket was deafening,
while the atmosphere was slightly
thicker than Limburger cheese, and
just about as strong. 1t may have been
this seeming obscurity that tempted Ora
out, at any rate slowly moving body
parted the murky cloud just in front,
and he shot out into the sea of trouble.
Ora face had set look when he started,
as if he saw criminal a short distance
ahead, and he was bound to sustain the
dignity of the law; but before he had
made three steps this look faded away
and one of startled surprise took its
place. The unstableness of mundane
things had never been so forcibly
brought to his mind as at that moment,
and he suddenly evinced an unsociability
strongly at variance with his usual good
fellowship. He seemed afraid he would
meet friend. Solitude was his strong
hold, and he sought for it with an ear
nestness born of unstable footing. The
sigh of relief which went up from Ora's