Costume Race
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By Dan BeardNovelties for Crockett's DayHow to Run a Costume Race, a Leap-Frog Race, a Wheel-Barrow Race, and a Push-Wagon RaceWe have learned how to celebrate Appleseed Johnny's Day, Kenton's Day, Audubon's Day, and now we are ready to celebrate Davy Crockett's Day. The gay, rollicking, absolutely fearless Davy Crockett was born on August 17, 1786, and this will make a splendid Midsummer Field Day for the Sons of Daniel Boone. A celebration of this kind, to be successful, requires considerable preparation and training. It is none too early to begin a month or two ahead of the date. Invite any neighboring Forts to meet with you on that day, or on the half-holiday nearest to that day, to engage in pioneer field sports. If there are no Forts close at hand with which to compete, invite some of the local athletic or school organizations to meet you and compete for a championship in a pioneer game. In order that you shall have a most entertaining time, your Founder has adapted a unique lot of the pioneer sports for you to use upon that date. If there was one peculiarity about the old frontiersmen, it was their ability to do things and do them on the jump. They were good at the hundred-yard dash and the long-distance run, and some of them, like the Wetzel brothers, could load and fire and reload their awkward, long-barrelled, flint-lock rifles while they were on a dead run pursued by savages. We want the modern Sons of Daniel Boone to be as quick as their forebears in thought and action, and the Dressing Race is a test of this sort of ability.
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