TOBOGANNING.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1581, 18 March 1887, Page 4

TOBOGANNING.

If an invalid requires amusement combined with nice, gentle exercise, let him take unto himself a toboggan and learn to ride it. the number of" situations" to which that innocent-looking little go-cart may be made accessory is something extraordinary, though its greatest piquancy may probably be found in the fact that locomotion on it, plus the charm of a toupcon of danger, invariably appears more ot less undignified to the casual observer. Mr Leigh, having been forbidden by Dr Schwartz to enter for races, took up a commanding position at Woodstock Corner on the occasion of the inter-hotel contest the other day, and sucked in much quiet amusement in the course of the morning. Woodstock Corner is to Scbneedorf what Breecher's Brook is to Liverpool, or the Big Double to Punchestown, and if not carefully negotiated becomes amusing for the onlooker. In the course of a race there are usually with any luck at all three or four purlers at this particular point, and if we look over Leigh's shoulders we shall get a good view of them. Most of the men have got down all right, but here comes Fitznoodle at last. Mark his agonised expression as he nears the fatal spot! 1 am afraid he is not enjoying himself much. Exactly in the middle of the steepest part of the run he has 10.-t his kat, and has apparently left bis head inside it. One stick only remains in his irresolute hand, and with the courage of despair he dashes straight at the bank. It is all over in a fraction of a second, and Leigh is picking up the fragments of Fitznoodle and his celebrated 'boggan " Sudden Death," who have gone over the bank and are now lying close together on their respective backs in the soft snow ten feet beh w. Unfortunate Fitznoodle, he has never in his life negotiated that corner succesfully. Miss Flirtington comes neit, smiling and confident, with a coquettish little cow-bell jingling on her cross-bar. Poor thing, a tintter of skirts and a foamy sheet of upthrown snow announces the destruction of her hope?. Let us draw a veil over her misery. 111-natured people said afterwards that she did it on purpose; but, then, really one can't believe what some people say. Certainly Frank deserted his pest of observation immediately after the accident, and neither he nor Mill Flirtington

turned up At lunch till the "pankacquea a la Shrove Tuesday" were Tory nearly finished. She didn't eat mnch even then, and attributed her want of appetite to her fall in the morning. Unfortunately for her, Mrs MVinegar's maid saw her going into Semonlini's the confectioner's, with Leigh, which fact that astute damsel "expanded" with all the facility of a practised reporter into half a column of "evening special" for her mistress's ear, in which the words " oysters and champagne " figured in the boldest type. Neediest to say, Mrs M' V. was equal to the emergency, and succeeded in disseminating the news through the hotel in the fastest time, even for her, of seven minutes and a half by the hall clock. Cornhill Magazine.