Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-11-05
A Game without a Name.


A Game without a Name.
Here is new game for you. 1t
can be played only in family where
there are several children and some
grown-up person who knew all the
children when they were little. This
person may be the mother. If she is
busy an aunt will do very well.
This is the way the game was
played in one family. An aunt and
five children played it. The aunt
was called Aunt Addie. The names
Of the.children were Minnie, Alice,
Jimmie, Bobby and Archie. The
aunt sat by the window and en-
broidered while she played, and the
children stood in a row before her.
"One of you," said Aunt Addie,
"when you were baby, used to cry
when you heard slow, sad tunes like
the odd Hundred and old Dog
Tray. When we sang something
lively, like Captain Jinks,' you
would laugh. Now, which one
was it?"
Bobby" shouted two children,
"that's the kind he likes now"
THAT was an easy one" said the
aunt; "here is another: One OF you
hated to wear hats. You would cry
whenever one was put on, and after
you had ridden little way In your
carriage you would pull it off and
throw it away. The nurse would pick
it up when she saw it, but sometimes
she did not see it, and several hats
and caps were lost. Which of you
was it,"
"Jimmy's always losing his things,
said Minnie. Il guess it was Jimmy. "
no." said the aunt; lit is your
turn for the other guess, Jimmy.
Only two guesses each time"
at was Minnie" said Jimmy.
"No," said Aunt Addie. Now here
is another. There was one Of you
only one-who was always good and
only cried when he felt sick
"Archie," guessed all the children
at once. And they were right.
These children and the aunt played
long time that day, but have told
you enough to show you how. Try 1t
and see if you can think of name
IOT Iue new game.
PorpOises.
The gregarious porpoise, or Pho
cRna communis, is one OF the most
Jolly and careless fishes in the sea.
He is hardly ever found alone, but
delights to join great roaming par
ties, and scOur the fishing coasts,
running into all the coves and bays
along the route and sometimes enter
ing the mouths of tidal rivers, in pur-
suit of other fishes But even when
a great herd Of porpoises is in pur-
suit of school" of capelan, herring,
tomcod, sea trout, or other fish, it
will stop its march to play.
The gregarious porpoise is known
by various names along the coast of
Labrador, Newfoundland, the mari
time provinces of Canada and New
England. The best known of these
names are puffing-pigs, herring hogs,
sea hogs, and round-heads. The
uorpoise is from four 10 six feet
long, with thick round body,
and black, shining, hairless skin.
When he is above water for
some time, with the hot sun
shining upon him, his bare hide
fairly ghstens with oil, and If you
pass to leeward of him in boat you
catch his strong oily smell. Like the
whale, he is obliged to rise to the sur
face regularly to breathe, and he
sends his breath through blow-hole
situated on the top of his head. When
breathing through this curious fun
mel he makes putting, labored sort
of noise, which accounts for one Of
his names. If you should see him
alone on fine day in some little
cove, he would look exactly like big
black pot, turned bottom UP, bobbing
up and down.
He has from forty to fifty teeth,
wide mouth, and an astonishing
stomach. But he has the smallest
ear to be found, suppose, on any
beast of his size. 1t is no bigger than
a pinhole, and is placed just about an
inch behind his eye. But small as it
Is, no fish that swims the sea has
sharper hearing, and none will more
quickly take the alarm at the slight
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