field must be 330 feet long by 160 feet in width, the goal posts placed at the
end 18% feet apart, and the cross-bars ten feet from the ground. There are
two sets of rules governing the game. Inone the ball cannot be touched except
by the foot, which is far less dangerous than the other one, and, on the other
hand, far less exciting than the one in which the player is allowed to seize the
ball and run with it, in which scrimmages are common. The game is in favor
with all who love vigorous and manly sports. The training it offers is highly
valuable from a physical standpoint. Undoubtedly one reason why foot-ball
has less popularity in America than in England is due to the fact that its season
is short. Contests in America are mostly between college teams. The game
is, however, growing in importance, and a college championship contest always
draws large crowds. The men are divided into seven rushers, one quarter
back, two half backs and one full back. The players must possess agility,
strength, endurance and pluck, and perhaps in no other game does swift run-
ning count as much as in this.

 

@€A Boy's Gssay on @obaceo.

OBACCO grows something like cabbage, but I never saw one
cooked. I have heard men say that cigars that was given them
election day for nothing was mostly cabbage leaves. Tobacco
stores are mostly kept by wooden Injuns, who stand at the door
and fool little boys by offering them a bunch of cigars which is
glued into the Injuns’ hands, and is made of wood also. I tried
to smoke a cigar once, and I felt like Epsom salts. Tobacco was
invented by a man named Walter Raleigh. When the people
first saw him smoking they thought he was asteamboat, and were
frightened. My sister Nancy isagirl. I don’t know whether she

‘EY likes tobacco or not. There is a young man named Leroy who
comes to see her. I guess she likes Leroy. He was standing on the steps one
night, and he had a cigar in his mouth, and he said he didn’t know as she would
like it, and she said: “Leroy, the perfume is agreeable.” But when my big
brother Tom lighted his pipe, Nancy said: ‘Get out of the house, you horrid
creature; the smell of tobacco makes me sick.” Snuff is Injun meal made out
of tobacco. I took a little snuff once, and then I sneezed.