THE GAME OF LACKOSSE,

By E, Pauline Johnson

captains hold high' conclave a
who “put her through” gets
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‘_ ““Best three out of five” is t ordinary
HERE is probably | regulation, 80 aftera fifteén mii & breath-
no country in the | ing space the ball is'faced once more;
‘world tthat ean| Many years ago-lacrosse was a serious
. boast a more spir-| matter to the Indians. Oftentimes entire
fted and exciting | tribes met on the field, and the game was
outdoorsport than | war to the knife;” Hatred, enmity, ven-
Canada’s national | geance foand footing in the sporty when
game of lacrosse, | perhaps two tribes who were enemies met,
for although there | almost a8 much for'bloodshed as for match-
may be “irresistible | ing dexterity and sporting ability. = It was
‘fascination = about | not unusual for a man to be carried off the
bage ball, a science | fleld fatally injuredy and bitter fonds ware
in cricket and a|sometimes settled or aggravated through
snap abeut curling, | the many opportunities afforded 4n- the
tolacrossg #lone be- | game for inflicting mortal injury,cfor ‘la-
long ' the' requisi- | crosse can be made the niost brutal ‘battle-
. tion ‘of “marvelous | field, as‘wéll as the cleanest seience, abcord-
" agility, atgus eye- | ing to the manner@nd men who play it.
.. sight and ' sponta- | From the old Indianstand point of etiquette,
“neous  intrigue, |.a bloodthirsty affray was as pern s.ible and .
which componefits are probably - the result.| ecreditable at sport as on the legit r wte war-
.. - of heredity—sines the Kame was bOrIn; ‘path, and conspiracy - was carried o gvenby
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their own tribe. Sometimes the¥ earried
immense birches, thrashing and whaling
‘their men into a fary that was svenl upon
their unfortunate opponents. - T

/At one timé the Iroghiois, alwa: |
&othe gambling habit, made t i

the “Indian ball
play,” after having once witnessed the red-
skin teams in ‘half serious contest with
crosse and ball, - B P T R

The rage for:lacrosse was econtagious
from the outset, and {ts populdrity soon
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many towns and cities in the great republic | their greatest betting games, Nothing was
cab boast téams equal in' strength .and | too valuable for them to risk oni the chance
enthusldsm to those of Cabada, for like all | of doubling their possessions. The stakes
adaptations from the Indians, lacrosse has | were always brought on the field, as a kind
sprung into favor with almost incredible | of incentive to the contestants, Vastquan«
rapidity, scarcely, however, outdoing in the | titieg of eilver brooeches, strings of purple
race” 1ts delightfil contestants—cganoeing | and yellow corn, helts of wampum, aven
and snowshoeing. It8 ruales mhy have ponies were brought and tied to the trees
undergone certain unimportant modifica- | near by, while the tournament would last
tions, the winning of a match may be of far | for days, and many goods and chattels
less moment and merit'than in the olden change hands, for when an Indian gambles
days, but the game remains practically ; he does so: with a zest that either brings
unaltered, the sport quite as keen, the | him much Wealth or leaves him with
participants fully as sensitive to glory of | lutely nothing, save his gun,
ivictory or ignominy iof: defes «y:There is no . ways 8t 8

previyiigamegiof dacrosse; A8l some-
“thing in the céatlikeness of an Tndian fn +

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feet gained on him, and a panting voice
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could not be rid of by any mortal means.

river!  Once in the river he would be safe.
‘He imagined he saw it bobbing up and
down with the current as it sailed away or
~would it sink—go to the bottom and stay
there like the octopus it
that it would.

were good. Why had this disaster come
upon him? "It seemed a cruel, mocking |
fate that held him in his ciutches, :

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A MYSTERIOUS ™'JNDLE.

- It was night. A man¥ ped softly from
the door of a fashionab hoarding-hodse; g

carrying a small bundle:j 1is hand, £
“Where ' shall T throw’ the accusrsed !
thing?” he ejaculated wildly. “In all this ;
great city is there no place where I can hide ;
it from my sight? Hal. I will try yon cor- &
ner in the very glare of | the electric light. f#&
The boldness of the act:will disarm suspi- v

cion.” ‘ : .,
‘He looked around and saw that no police: [
man was in sight. Only a small boy or two E¥%
playing a last game of tdg before going in P&
‘to bed. ‘Once he had béen a small boy with
no dreadful nightmare.-on his conscience. E
But now—well, he mustact at once,
He crossed to the eléctric light corner,
stood a moment whistling a poptilar tune, r
then lat the bundle slide from his grasn and |85
drop softly on ‘the pavement, while: he bfi
walked off, not too' quickly, but with an |§-
innocent and unconscious air. * . IR
~ Ha, it was done! No one counld identify |}
uld be na possible clue, . He

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Poor young fellow! All his impulses