Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-15
N HE ARENA AT MINES.
snort That Plsases the Popuiace Nearly
as Much as Hull Batting.

| Snort That Flsases the AoP~s" -S
as Much as Hull Batting.
| Wearied out that Sunday morning with
wandering through interminable corridors
and clambering over the broken ranges OF
seats we descended and asked 10 90 lev
| ont. The wife Of the guardian was ior Lno
time being In charge waving her Ine
hand with true southern dignity .oWaru
the nearest archway, through wnicn
struggling line of miscellaneous mankin !,
was passing to the Interior, LADIES', saiu
she, II counsel you not to leave. ms az,
ternoon, as doubtless you know, there VIII
I've a serious affair in the arena, with tri-
dents and cockades, but just at present
,ha vouth Ia going to exercise and amuse
;.ss,f With cow-a small cow-left over
from the last course"
We were impressed by her manner and
began meekly to retrace our steps. Hav-
inc found and established ourselves In
shady spot we turned toward the arena
and perceiyed for the first time that the
central space was encircled by low wooden
mailing closed at one extremity by 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
la ieunesse de Mines, of age varying from
Is to 50. There were soldiers and police.
men of duty, clerks from town shops and
! ..haudsn from the neighboring 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 WENT" and tu-
multuous movement arises among the
vouth. followed by series of loud thuds,
as 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 cscapade has
been several times repeated do the barn
doors actually turn upon their creaklng
hinges and admit to the arena a lean and
wistful looking heifer. She let her eye
drop languidly, first on the jeunesse astrlde
the fence, and then with shade more OF
interest upon ourselves. Even thus, De-
holding her full face, we could but own
| that she was small creature. A little tri-
angular black head, with moody mouth,
sleepy eyes and widely branching horns.
| two short, thin legs and waving tall
| were all that we could discern. After q
| few moments of suspense one of the more
| adventurous youths stole forward on tip
toe, whooped in the animals ear and then
dashed back to the fence amid loud ap-
plause.
Moolly turned her head half around and
contemptuously switched her tail. The
experiment was repeated from the other
side of the oval space, and she started on
calm trot for the red doors, only to find
them closed. Her movement had quite suf-
feed, however, to clear the arena of human
combatants, with the exception OF one
plump sergeant, who missed his leap over
the paling and lay biting the dust. We
waited impatiehtly for the next act of the
drama, but nothing ensued, and the con-
viction slowly forced itself upon us that
the fun was all over. 1T was very interest
ing, wasn't it, ladies9" said the guardians
wife, as she accepted her fee and ceremoni-
ously bowed us out.-Harriet w. Preston
in Century.