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Show t Game of Loggatt Revived. I A club has been formed in western ' Cnnndn to play tho old English game of logpats which has long fallen into I disuse in tlio old country., Tho pns I time Is niluded to by Shakespeare. I Tlie gamo consists In throwing a I pin called a loggat at n stnko driven I into tho ground. The flayer who gets I his loggat nearest tho mark wins. I This is essentially our French gamo I of (iiioits, which every ono in America I pronounces "quates." Tho difference I is that wo use a heavy disk, or In I many regions a horseshoe Instead o' I a pin. I Of loggnts, Stevens, tho Sliakesper- I Ian commentntor, who died In 1S00, I says: "I have seen It played In dlf- I fercnt counties at their sheep shearing I feasts, where tho winner was entitled to a black fleece, which ho afterward presented to tho farmer's maid to spin for the purpose of making a petti- I coat on condition that she kneel down I on the fleece to bo klsbed by all the I rustics present." Springfield Hepubll- I can. |