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Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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Majestythe Queen. From a hill-top you may seea dozen of these May-pole dances withtheir revelers weaving through the mazesof the ribbon walk, until the pretty pattern of children and color is clusteredaround the beribboned pole and the groupsbreak up into cake-walking, whose fasci-nations are more potent than any OldWorld customs of May Day. The royal canopies and bowers are setaside under the trees, and the court min-gles with its subjects. Games spring upon every side. Baseball nines assemble; Ring Around the Rosey and Drop theHandkerchief rage like an epidemic, andthose who prefer to go it alone play withthe joyful abandon of kittens at nothingin particular. Many of these children so seldom see thegreen open spaces, which in Central Parkare like the real unbounded country, thatthey are content to roll downhill, to sprawlunder the trees, to conduct venturesomeexplorations over beyond the nearest slope.After all, play is only a device for killingtime until that great hour when some-
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