The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-13
WANTS TO KNOW
 ABOUT POLO GAME
cockburn High School Boy Describes Some of the Games They Play in Leeds and
 Tells of a Visit of the King and Qu,en.

In the letter from the Leeds school published to-day the writer describes some of the games the boys play over there and also tells of a visit of the king and queen and how they were enter tained. A particular question he asks is about our game of polo as it seems the game of roller skating polo is not played in England to any great extent. There are still couple of letters in the series which will be given to-mor- row.
 Cockbnrn High School,
 Leeds, Nov 12, 1908 Dear Friend:
 : I was very glad to hear about your school, and I am going to tell you something about my school in return. It is the Cockburn High School, and is situated in Leeds, in the East Huns.et Ward. There are two departments, one is the Secondary and the other is the Preparatory Department. The first mentioned is for scholars thirteen to twenty years of age and the latter is for boys nine to thirteen years. Now you see that the boys in the Secondary Department are much older, therefore they have altogether different lessons from us. In the two departments
 
 and mine is room (39). We are very proud of our room. On the walls there are paintings, nature study drawings, pictures and other various things. Some of these are done by boys, others have been placed to help us in our work. Our lessons I dare say are similar to yours. Some of our subjects need spe- cial teachers. For instance there are French, Woodwork, and Gymnasium practice. My favourite lesson is Arith- metic: I generally get nearly all my sums right, and I am very interested in some kinds, especially problems. Our school is famous for sport. We have won trophies in many competitions. The games which we play are football, cricket. basket ball, running, and swimming. All these I dare say you will know. There is question I would like you to answer about your games. You mention Polo. There are two games of Polo, one has to be play ed at the baths, and the other is what rich men play on horseback. I do not suppose the game that you play is horse back polo, but should like to ask you if the polo game is that which is played in the baths or if it is a new game. Please would you kindly answer that question and describe the game. Not very long ago on the 7th of July our king visited Leeds to open a new department of the University. Nearly all the school children were taken by their teachers. On the morn ing we were give a box of chocolates as a remembrance of the Kings visit to Leeds. The boxes were of tin with pictures of the king and queen on the lids. Inside of them were (20) choco- lates. They were made by Rown- trees, the English makers of sweets, etc. We were also provided with luncheon which was bag of buns. In the afternoon we went to the city as he passed. After we had seen him we went home. As we were going through the streets we could see dec- orated walls, cars and triumphal arch es. We got through the throng with some difficulty and home at last. suppose you have not got king, but a. president and you have been having a fresh one elected lately. It must have been a very exciting time. Now I will tell you something about the town. It is the fifth city in England, and has many large factories The chief factories are those for engineer ing. The sky is never hardly clear because of these factories but the roads are very wide. There are many large parks of which the largest is Roundhay Park. This has two lakes in the middle, and many ducks and ducklings swim in them. In various places there are flower beds. The most common flower in these beds is the pansy and in winter the crocus. There are many birds. The most numerous of them which builds their nests on the houses are the Sparrows, but ex- oect you will have them. The birds of the country are thrush, gold-finch, lark, and sobin. The lark is beau .iful singer, and scars into the air out of sight. When it is low down it sings softly and gets louder as it goes higher into the air. I hope you are pleased with this letter and later on f all is well you will be able to write pack.
 I remain yours sincerely,
 JOHN CUNNINGTON.