Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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^ w ^-y^^ The Womens Race—with Fork and Ball. with a cow uot to run fast; afterwardhe may also cheat the iiiniier. A Mexi-can friend of mine has several timeslieard : This man does not know whatshame is ; lie promised us a cow, andnow havin«^ lost the race for his sake,he will not pay us. It is not uncom-mon for an important runner to sinuilateillness. Our rivals, he may say, havehe witched us. The whole thinja: thencomes to nothint^^ and the wafers aredivided between the parties, who returnto their liome to await the next race. There is no i)rize oriven to the runnersthemselves, and they jrain nothinof by itunless in helping- their friends to winwaj^crs. A <x<d runner is also «jrreatlyadmired by the women, which may beof some account to him. It is also thecustom for a man who has been verylucky with his waorers to s^ive a smallpart of his winnin<j:s to the successfulrunner, who, however, is allowed to takeneither beads nor money, but onlv li<jht-308 weiofli

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