Word: cats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the year 1800 it was the custom for boys in Merrie England to amuse themselves by whacking dead cats up and down he gutters. In the course of time some of the boys found that footing was better on the ice. Gradually the dead cat ceased to be used as a target, being replaced by a puck. However, even to this day the British persist in calling the puck "the cat", and "the kit." The general adoption of steel skates speed up the game, adding interest and thrills, and insuring lasting popularity for the sport...
According to English tradition, polo also originated from the same maternal cat. Unlike hockey, however, the young gentlemen mounted horses instead of skates, and developed their game on the turf in lieu...
...those days the game was called "bandy", from the crook in the stick they used for striking "the cat". The stick, or "bandy", as it was called, was made of willow, and a good specimen was much prized by the owner...
...Beulah Lewis, widow, living alone, read the Atlanta Constitution until she got sleepy and then went up to bed, taking the cat with her. She was half undressed when the gentlemen in white began breaking down her front door. They roared when, having shot their way into the bedroom, the cat confronted them, licking nervous chops, on the top of a bedpost. One man fired from the hip; the cat tumbled off the post. The woman had fainted but they revived her. Then they stripped her, beat her unconscious...
Hanging of his Cat on Monday