Show An Interesting Game By Uncle Dick 1 1111 1 c 1 1 t. t i J t t I 1 1 1 I l l' l 1 I L- L L J t. t t OF I I f I I. I J f- f i J r I h-I I 1 I I l. l 1 f i l- l L I If f I j 1 t i i N OAR b. b 2 FT S SQUARE SQUARE- QUA E. E IA I 0 l ORK HERAlD t 54 UJ d fir t 1 t NOI hol BEING Nat TARSI BY AHW AG rl N rite T-HE T 1 GAME CAME THE AE woodshed was a mighty pleasant sl nt 1 I THE place when Uncle Dick arrived on Saturday morning It w was s a raw November ember day but Tommy had a nice warm arm fire in the stove sto beside which theold theold the theold old gentleman was soon seated Does It occur to you yon that Christmas will soon be here he asked naked Tommy I Well I r guess guss yes I dreamed about Santa Claus Glaus last night I met the the- theold old gentleman on the street and he asked I Ime me to help him check up a lot of toys Goodness sS gracious I worked n So BO hard on the job that I woke up op this morning with witha a headache I guess that mince pie you ate for dinner din ner last night put you rou on that job din I laughed Uncle Dick Now I think its it's hi high h time you started a n little Santa Claus Glaus I factory of your own ou Of course you recall recall recall re re- call those thos Nelson boys you met at the farm during vacation Dont Don't you remember her ber The They took you fishing with them showed shoed you how to trap bobolinks and andall andall all that sort rt of thing Indeed I do replied Tommy And you bet Im I'm going hoing to send thorn them a nice nice I Christmas present i Well ell said Uncle Dick heres a drawing of a 8 game that will tickle them themI I to death It hasn't got any name that I e ever heard of but its it's a 0 whole lot of fun I Bill Smith invented it and we boys each had one at home First you want to get geta et eta a smooth board one ODe half bait an inch thick and find say say- twelve inches wide By nailing strips trips on the ends you ou make a board two I Ifft feet square Paint the face fac white whit and drs draw w the lines on with ith a lead pencil I making one and a half inch squares Use this picture to make your drawing Use a keyhole saw to cut out th the targets con con- of the heads of Uncle Unde Mose the two kids and aDd the donkeys donkey's eye The be construction con COD of the back of the targets is very simple The little brass strap hinges will cost but a few cents Slake Make the little lit tie tle- sand bag bags of colored muslin musli filled With Clean sand MUd The Tho rubber r bands should l I be strong enough enough t to t snap nap the th- th sand d' d hag bag back about eighteen inches when it strikes the thc centre of the target Stand about twelve feet away from the board when playing tho the game Ill never forget an un adventure ad Louie uie Boggs had after practising all winter on OD I th this game He Lie had become becom so o expert that he could hit the tho donkeys donkey's eye right in m tho the centre every time tune at nt a dis distance nce of f twenty feet Well Veil the following tall taU we wc I fail lall all went as usual to the tho county fair Among the catchpenny games sames to separate 1 i the f farmers from their money was a caneI cane I ringing riDging outfit L Of course courso the canes that I were ere easy to ring were vere worth about two cents a dozen But as a bait t the man bad i I hud had a half dozen or so eo silk umbrellas the handles bein being of a 8 siz size that made it next to impossible to throw a rin ring over o I them While hiJa we were looking on a boy i I by the merest luc luck threw a ring o over r the best one of the lot Jot Although the man running I the game had bad been beeD dolD doing a So land office business all aU day get getting about a dollar apiece ee for penny canes he ho refused to ci give e the boy the umbrella making makini the rJ ridiculous claim that bo ho had leaned over o too far wh when n he threw the ring This made us all aU mad and Bill Smith thou thought t of a scheme to get bet even with the man Bills Bill's father was one one of the directors of the fair and we hunt hunted d him up Bill BUI told hint him about the swindler and also ulso his plan to get set square This is how we did It First Deacon Smith sauntered up and made himself kno known to the fakir and while they were talking up stepped Louie Boggs Bog and bought sl six rings for Cor five are cent centi H He made the man mun show him just where he could stand and gut him bim to say eay that any article he threw a ring over he could ba have bae e Then Ihen Mr Louie calmly proceeded to ring five fi silk sUk umbrellas out of the six aix rings one une just missing by a hair bair YoU should have b heard ard that fakir co iO on anI But it was no use Deacon Smith stood right there and told him if he didn't give up the umbrellas he be would have ha him bim put off the grounds So wo we 0 nil all went home with a silk umbrella including the boy bo who was cheated us Lowe Louie gave gaTe one to him bim |