Skating. — Dutch Roll Figure Eight-Grape-vine Twist
Great are my joys on skating night,
When moonshine1 flows in streams so light,
While some strong lassie keeps my stride
As o’er smooth ice we fancy glide.
—Harrison.
When in future winters young men and women of the Race are justly admitted to the ice-skating rinks; they sensibly decide to spend less of their time in hot-stuffy parlors, etc., and with ice skates stay out more in the free, fresh, health renewing air upon the parks’ frozen lakes and streams: they will certainly find among themselves a talented skater who may later build up to a white Chas. Jewtraw, short distant; a Mrs. F. F. MacMillian, fancy; or a J. F. Donohue, long distant, ice skating champions.
Notes
1 I mean the moonshine from the sky
And not from raisins, corn nor rye.
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