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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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ry are you from?Yorkshire side, I take it? United States. A-oh! You dont mean it? Ameri- can? Really, you dont look it, youknow. What a shame! Had a beatall picked out for you. But the govern-ment wont stand for our taking onYanks, you know. Awfully sorry.Good day. None but a man ignorant of Orientalways could have conceived my secondscheme in one sleepless night. It wassuggested by the fact that I had, inearlier years, gone in for long-dis-tance running. Returning to Al-meidas, I soon picked up a partner forthe enterprise. He was a young andlanky Englishman, who, though he hadnever indulged in athletic sports, wascertain that in eluding the police of fourcontinents he had developed a record-breaking stride. In a shady corner of Gordon Gar-dens we arranged the details of ourplan, which was—why not admit it atonce?—to become rickshaw runners.The hollow-chested natives who pliedthis equestrian vocation leased their ve-hicles from the American consul. That 727 728 THE OUTING MAGAZINE
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HOLY MAN WITH A WELL-DEVELOPED APPETITEFOR BANANAS. official, surely, would be only too gladto rent the two new carriages in hisestablishment, the license would costlittle, and we had merely to display theannouncement, for white men only,to keep the population of Colombo fromsweeping down upon us clamoring forthe unheard-of honor of riding behind asahib. By thunder, remarked the Briton,as we turned out into the blazing sun-shine once more, its a new scheme, allright, an sure to attract attentionmighty quick. It did. So quickly, in fact, that hadthere been a white man within hailingdistance when we broached the subjectto the consul we should have found Lodg-ing at once in two nicely padded cellsof the city hospital. Did you two lunatics, shrieked myfellow-countryman from behind theprotecting bulwark of his desk, everhear of caste? Would the Europeans patronize you? You betthey would—with a finecoat of tar and feathers!Of all the idiotic schemes!Why — you — you—dontyou know that

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