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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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cs through themonths, the most happy-go-lucky, if thekeenest, fellow under the British sun.Watch him at Covent Garden early in themorning, rough with a vengeance, readywith coarse repartee, sharp as a needle,fighting for his own interests, but showinghis good heart whenever some special needof kindliness appeals to his finer instincts.Listen to the amazing flow of his pictoriallanguage as he holds forth to a crowd onthe subject of the desirability of his goods,passing from jest to sarcasm, from sarcasm ready to raise a laugh out of next tonothing. But the time to see him in his element,the time when he takes his stand—withinthe limitations I have mentioned—as aman of sport, is at his own Coster Sports,at the end of the summer. On that day,in especial, he shows what he can do. Firstin favor, of course, come the donkey andpony races. But he goes in for fancy racesupon his own feet to a large extent also.And one of the features of the day is thebasket race, a race in which the art of
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The costers sisters and sweethearts also join in the Bank Holiday race to inducement, from inducement to com-parison in a rush of eloquence that mightwell be the despair of any orator of partypolitics. Take note of him on Saturday,his busiest day, when the naphtha lampsflare till midnight; and on Monday, hisoff day, when he goes sight-seeing and tak-ing the air. Rub shoulders with himwhen he slips off the yoke of barrow lifefor a bit, and has his play. No matterwhere you come across him, you will findhim turning a gay front to the world, and balancing is as necessary to success asfleetness of foot. Each man carries tenround market baskets upon his head fromthe starting to the winning post; or rath-er, I should say, he should do so. Forthe baskets do not always reach the goal.The chief difficulty is placing the basketsin position, first of all, as every man mustdo this for himself. Just before the dateyou will see the costers practicing basketrunning in the streets in which the gutterm

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