. St. Nicholas [serial]. dge was. Then came the Indian clubs anddumb-bell drill, and last came the apparatus work. This was the event that every Lancaster girlloved. It was like a game of follow-my-leader, asthe girls swung down the flying rings, jumped,vaulted, walked the balance-beams, swung alongthe traveling-boom, turned somersaults over thebars, and finished with the swinging jump withthe ropes. Betty and Mary Lou were leading,and one by one the other girls missed in some partof the work, or were dropped out for failure to keepthe proper form. At last, Betty and Mary Lou,with two others,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. dge was. Then came the Indian clubs anddumb-bell drill, and last came the apparatus work. This was the event that every Lancaster girlloved. It was like a game of follow-my-leader, asthe girls swung down the flying rings, jumped,vaulted, walked the balance-beams, swung alongthe traveling-boom, turned somersaults over thebars, and finished with the swinging jump withthe ropes. Betty and Mary Lou were leading,and one by one the other girls missed in some partof the work, or were dropped out for failure to keepthe proper form. At last, Betty and Mary Lou,with two others, were left at the swinging jump. Now this was not the most difficult of the featsthat had been performed, but it showed the finishwith which the performer worked and was asuseful as any other in eliminating the great ropes, up which a short timeago they had been climbing, the girls steppedback, then ran forward, sliding their hands upthe ropes and swinging up and over a cordstretched in front of
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