THE WICKED GAME, CROQUET.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3168, 15 April 1879, Page 1

THE WICKED GAME, CROQUET.

One day last summer ,w« red*, fifty ■miles in a railway car, seated behinftfour Dion who were playing with thoje awfal things of the deril—cards. They payed euchre until they were tired of ifeai They played a little seven-np, pedro, i and occasionally a trifle of poker. We never heard a-dispute.. Their bursts of merriment occasionally at some unexpected - play repeatedly drew our eyes from oar ,book. They nerer quarreled and .nerer ' called names once. When we got out at the station we sat at our window and watched a party of young men and maidens 'play croquet. In fifteen minutes we saw two persons cheat successfully. . .We heard the one player who did not*cheat nccused of cheating fire times. We heard four distinct, bitter quarrels.' tWe;heard abeautif'ul young girl tell two lies t and a meek looking young man three,* and finally we Faw the young girl throw hir mullet ngainst the fence so hard that it frightened | a horse ; the other young girl pounded her mallet so hard on the ground that it knocked tho buds off an apple tree.- They both banged into the house at different doors, and the two young men looked sheepish nnd went off after a drink. Now, why is this ? Isn't croquet a good, moral game P.—Toronto Gosiiper.