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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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n a Toy-shopas complete as this it isnecessary to show all thelatest inventions, the lastinsane challenge in flyingmachines, the newest dar-ing in speedy engines, andone would naturally lookfor these more elaborateand expensive articles inthe conspicuous places.Here, however, the Dameshows a very great wisdomof method. Hers is theexperience that has learnedthat the simplest amuse-ments are forever the bestloved, and though she oc-casionally sets going someglittering geyser of awater-toy or puts off oneof the louder explosives,or inflates a herd of woollybeasts and starts themfighting and bellowingoverhead; she is niggardlywith all such contrivances,knowing that they gener-ally create a great disorderwith little pleasure orprofit for anybody. Sheprefers, rather, to keep tothe front all the smallerand safer amusements,those articles which bytheir appearance suggesttheir uses, and which areeasily duplicated. Hence,on the first counter we findsamples of white pebblesof enticing weight and
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The faces in the clouds. shape, and good for a variety of ammuni-tions, sports and contests. Next—shouldone pine to play the venerable game ofGrocery Store—is a vast collection ofstones that may be pounded into powdersof varying hue, resembling sugar and cinna-mon and other delectable sweets and spices.Next to that is a show case full of assort-ments of shells of differing colors and pat-terns—such a stock as never runs out—andnear by a sign reading This way to whitesand and all kinds of material for mud-pies,directs to a universally beloved plaything. Here are dozens of pretty little brookscolored green, brown and tawny yellow.These are carefully packed away betweenlayers of soft grass which prevents theirleaking. Small circular ponds attractively 544 displayed are fitted out with jumping frogs,polliwogs, and other clever mechanical toys.They are also furnished with the strangescums and jellies which make such pondsirresistible to the average small boy. Inone department are t

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