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 22 lady's glove in combat. Lanman, who witnessed this little episode of the game among the Cherokees of Qualla town, North Carolina, says: "This little movement struck me as particularly interesting, and I was greatly pleased with the bashfulness and yet complete confidence with which the Indian maidens manifested their preferences." What an incentive to first twelves if Canada's fair daughters would revive the fashion! How it would put one on one's mettle to be a crack player!

Where this custom was not in vogue, the players either danced, one party at a time, around their respective goals, as the night previous, and advanced to the middle of the field where they laid or sat down, yelling defiance at each other. At a signal from the game director they sprang to their feet and held their sticks over their heads, facing, and gradually approaching until they were within a yard of each other. Upon another signal they laid their sticks down at their feet, and the sides were counted. When the game was for mere pleasure, the men could choose the sides upon which they would play. The game director now delivered a long speech, urging the players to energy and fair-play; they then