Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-12
Hinwathn,s Ping Ponsins.

Chicago Record Herald.)
Hiawatha hurried homeward,
Galloped homeward from the city.
Hurried onward with a package.
A neat package that he carried,
And at last before his tepee,
Yelled: "Oh, N1innie-NIinnehaha.
Come and see what papa's brought you
Brought to you back from the city,
From the gay haunts Of the paleface."
Out came smiling Minnehaha,
Wearing an old pair of slippers
That she'd found upon a scrap heap,
Also wearing a red bathrobe,
That some fat man had discarded.
Hiawatha with his jacksnife,
Cut the strings and ripped the paper
And took out the little paddles
And some balls that lightly bounded
And a little net and told her
OF the splendid game of ping-pong.
Told her how the proud white people.
The gay people in the city,
Played it till their clothes got soggy.
Till their backs ached and .neir muscles
Got all knotted up and tangled.
Minnehaha poked fun at him
AS he fixed up an old barn door
On two stumps behind the tepee.
This" she said, may do for children,
But shall noble Hiawatha,
Shall my tall and handsome warrior
Monkey with those little paddles?
Shall the buck who Stays the panther
And who calmly chokes the wildcat
Fool with such game as this iS?''
Never mind" said Hiawatha;
TAKE your paddle and get ready"
Then he swiftly served twister
And the ball. in bouncing. struck her
On the nose and made it Jingle.
Here" she hollered "try it over,
And I'll knock it through the treetops,
1 will send it through the rushes,
And across the soughing hedges,
So blamed far you'll never find it,
Stepped upon trailing corner,
Hiawatha served it swiftly,
And the gentle Minnehaha
Tripped upon her old red bathrobe,
In her eagerness, her hurry,
Tripped and turned an airy f1ipflap,
Rose up in the circumambient
Atmosphere and lost slipper
Rose and yelled for Hiawatha
To be kind enough to stop her.
Rose, and, with her red robe waving
Turned a time or two on nothing,
And then landed in a puddle
Where the tadpoles loved to frolic.
t1id"dlud, tue ttll WdETlOI,
Rushed around and bent above her,
Crying: Here my Minnehaha,
Here I am-Ive come to help you.''
Up she rose and out she waded,
Saying things to him in Injun
That, alas, cannot be printed;
And she grabbed the net and tore 1t
Into more than sixty pieces:
She knocked down the door and smash
ed it.
And then she grabbed a ping-pang pad
And went after Hiawatha.
Thrice she chased him round the tepee,
Holding up the dripping bathrobe;
On one foot she wore slipper,
On the other she had nothing.
Save some smearings from the muck
pond.
Here and there he hurried. lodging
Things she grabbed up and threw at
him,
And she called him names and told him
That she'd make him when she caught
him
Curse the man who had invented
The Internal game OF p;ng-porg.
Through the woods they wildly hurried,
Through the valleys they tore madly:
through the swamps and over stone
She pursued the fleeing warrior.
And at last far in the distance,
Something red went over a hilipp,
Something like danger signal
Disappeared and all was silent
Round the stumps behind the tepee,
Where he taught her how to pinx-pong.
How Rice-Birds Arc Obtained.
New York Commercially
When you order your rice birds at lunch
ON to-day. or after the theatre tonight.
rou probably won't think anything about
low they looked when they were alive
Ecu will just grind them up with the
cast, as usual. bones and all. and wish
hat they were a little bigger and always
o be had every day IN the year But II
nay pAssibly interest you 70 learn whers