Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-22
N 1Ae AReNA Ar MINES.
Short THAT PIeases she Populacc Nearly
- a. Much as RuiI batting.

Short THAT Pleases she Popuiacc Nearly
as Much as Bun Batting.
Wearied out that Sunday morning with
Wandering through iltcrminahle corridors
and clamberiag over the broken ranges of
seats, we descended and asked to be let
out. Tie wife Cf the guardian was for the
time Lin, il charge. Waving her fat
lctnl with rue southern dignity toward
the nearest archWay, through which q
strG y;aing line Of miscellaneous mankind
WIS .,ssiug to the interior, Ladies', said
she, II coEnGcl you not 20 leave. This af
ternoon, us doubtless you know, there will
be II serious affair in the ARENA with tri
dents and cockades, but just ut prcselt
the youth is going TO exercise and amuse
itself with a cow-a small cOw-left over
from the last course"
We were impressed by her manner and
began InccSly to retrace our steps. Ilav
ing found and established ourselves in n
shady spot we turned toward tho arena
and perceived for the first time that the
central space was encircled by low wooden
paling closed at one extremity by n pair of
red painted doors which might have been
looted from north New England barn.
Inside the paling in convenient proximity
to these doors were grouped some forty of
IL jGunesse de Mines, of age varying from
Il to 80. There were soldiers and police
men off duty, clerks from town shops and
hands" from the ncighboring farms, boys
with dogs and boys without, all swayed by
the same passion for the classic diversions
Of the arena
A cry is raised of "Elle yientp' and tn
multuous movement arises among the
youth, followed by series of loud thuds,
uS eighty heels smite the wooden paling
and eighty legs are adroitly swung over to
the side OF safety The alarm proving
false, they cautiously return to the post OF
danger, and not until this escapade has
been several times repeated do the barn
doors actually turn upon their Creaking
hinges and admit to the arena a lean and
Yislful looking hcifer. She let her eye
drop l;InSuidly, FIRST on the jcunesse Hstride
the fence, and then with II shade more of
interest upon ourselves. Even thus, be
holding her full face, we could but own
that She was Il email creature. A little tri-
angular black head with moody mouth,
sleepy eyes aud widely branching horns,
tWo short, thin less and waving tail
were all That We could discern. After Il
few moments Of suspense one of the more
adventurous youths stole forward on tip
toe, whooped in the animals car and then
dashed back TO the fence amid loud ap
piausc.
Moolly turned her head half around and
contcmptuously switched her tail. The
experiment was repeated from the other
side Of the oval space, and she started on Il
calm trot for the red doors, only to find
them closed. Her movement had quite suf-
feed, however, to clear the arena Of human
combutnnts, with the exception of onc
plump sergeant, who missed his leap over
the paling and lay biting the dust. We
waited impaticntly for the next act Of the
drama, but nothing Cnsucd, and the con
viction slowly forced itself upon us tina,
the fun was all over. 1T WAS very interest.
M, wasn't it, laGics" said the guardians
wife, aus she accepted her fee and ceremoni
)usly bowed us out Harriet w. Preston
in Century.