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It frosted and fee formed a few nights ago, and as I watched Dr. Griggs glide out of hie linen trousers and into a pair of arctic overshoes, the sign told me that the crokinole season was getting ripe, and that for the next five monthsmy ears would be beseiged with the% »clack-dack of croklnoie discs and vain boasts about championship. I can stand nearly anything butcrokinole. It haunts me in my dreams, and waking I see crokinole boards sticking around in trees and out-of-the-way places thicker than flies in July. • ;It is funny how many people take to crokinole. When a girl gets to the place where she thinks that she is getting a little bit on the other side of the spring chicken age, she takes up crokinole; ebe attends all the seances, and possibly she lands a fish. When an old bachelor comes to the conclusion that heroic measures are necessary to save him from the doom of single cussedness, he hunts a crokinole clnb and joins, and probably willnn \wo years trom that date be is the bead of an interesting family. When a well-balanced man gets the mullygrubs, and tbeeky begins to look muddy in color, and the air seems charged with blue beetles, he goes and joins a crokinole cluo. He has his choice of delirium tremens or crokinole and be chooses crokinole as the less exciting of the two.Tim man who invented crokinole may stili be living, but if alive it can safely be wagered that he is in a house of detention or stored away in a etraight-jacket; At leaBt this is the confidential opinion ofTiie Owl.
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Charlestown Hoosier Democrat
Charlestown, Indiana, US
Fri, Oct 06, 1899
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