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Updated: May 12, 2025
You may worship them, all right enough, but it is safer to do so at long distance. Suppose you were hooked up for life to a lady champion and you happened to displease her? She'd spank you! Think of being laid face downward firmly across a sinewy knee and beaten forty-love with one of those hard catgut rackets!
The regiment of La Fère was but a sample of the whole. "Dancing three times a week," says the advertisement for recruits, "rackets twice, and the rest of the time skittles, prisoners' base, and drill. Pleasures reign, every man has the highest pay, and all are well treated."
I loaded my gun and floundered along in the deep snow, making all possible haste. Looking behind, I saw that an Indian on snowshoes was following me. I started up a side hill, where his rackets would not give him an advantage. He fired, but missed me. I turned and shot him, as he raised his hand to throw his tomahawk. He fell and was quite dead by the time I reached him.
As agile as a deer, and as light as a bird, he leaped into the air, both arms upstretched, holding the rackets aloft and ready. He was a far-famed player, and even now the Ioco spectators were shouting, Amoyah needs must win! A mysterious silence fell suddenly. They all saw what had happened. There could be no mistake. The rackets parted at the propitious moment to receive the ball.
They wore simple white frocks which just came down above their ankles, and had white washing-hats on their heads. Their thick, rather fair hair was worn in a plait down each young back, and was tied with a bunch of pale-blue ribbon at the end. "Hello!" shouted Molly. The girls flung down their rackets and ran joyfully to meet her. "Oh, I am so glad you have come!" said Cicely.
"Now, boys," said McKinstry, "spread out, so that they can't run to the shore, and in this going we ought to get them all." We went down on the ice and drove them toward the Indians and then formed a circle around them. As we had rackets on, and the snow was deep, we could outrun the deer, and we killed the whole herd twelve in all.
She or Nathaniel could praise it; but this sport of playing with one's eventual meal, however, was loathsome. It was hard to revere Mother Earth and Father Sky, or nature as a whole, when it was essentially barbaric. She hated Mouse when it allowed its half dead prey to escape so that it could recapture it again and slap it around with the stiff rackets of its paws. She opened the window.
This defeat, added to some fancied slights, was almost more than she could bear, and during the contest she had been cut in the head by one of the rackets an accident that she falsely attributed to her adversary in the game.
Mr. Pupkin, I must explain, lived with Mallory Tompkins in rooms over the Exchange Bank, on the very top floor, the third, with Mullins's own rooms below them. Extremely comfortable quarters they were, with two bedrooms and a sitting-room that was all fixed up with snowshoes and tennis rackets on the walls and dance programmes and canoe club badges and all that sort of thing.
There is one other method of hunting the moose often practised by the Indians that is, trailing them with rackets, or snow-shoes, and running them down. As I had partaken of this sport I was able to give an account of it to my companions. "In the winter of 18 , I had occasion to visit a friend who lived in the northern part of the state of Maine.
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