"HUNT THE SLIPPER."
* Hunt the slipper ' lias always been regarded as distinctively a parlour game, and the City Council, therefore, deserve the thanks of the community for being the means of introducing the pastime in question as an out door recreation. The rules of the new game are very simple. All you have to do is to walk across (or attempt to walk across) one of our thoi*oughfares in rainy weather. Any street will do — Queen-street, or Victoria-street, for instance; or, better still, one of the suburban roads up Mount Roskill, Ponsonby, or Arch Hill way. Tou plant your foot down firmly on the ground, as in ordinary walking — and when you raise it the boot is gone ! — buried deep in mud. You now summon half-a-score or so of small boys, and while you invoke a blessing on the head of the Council the boys can be 'hunting the slipper.' One of our city librarians tried the game the other night, and to judge by the cheerful expression of his face while the juvenile larrikins were digging for that shoe in the slush with a spade borrowed for the occasion, he seemed to think the game a really good one.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 345, 18 July 1885, Page 2
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