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and ofttimes confusion on the part of the boy 

 were in order at this juncture. 

 The song was sometimes varied into 



"Your Love is in the garden," etc., 



and the garden was wherever the girl happened to 

 be or where she could be caught. 



If the "movie" picture men could reproduce one 

 of those school kissing games, just as it was 

 played in pioneer days, with all its joyousness, 

 delicacy and animation, they'd have a fascinating 

 film. 



I have in mind several girls who had a penchant 

 for "cancelling" on their slates, the names of the 

 handsomest of their boy friends in conjunction with 

 their own. The result of the cancellation of similar 

 letters in the names of a couple was believed by 

 the schoolgirls of those days, to be a reasonably 

 sure indication of the destiny of their lives from a 

 matrimonial point of view. Whether the horo- 

 scopes then cast ever proved correct in the case 

 of these young innocents, likely, they themselves 

 alone know. It was said, too, that certain of the 

 boys sometimes dealt in such alphabetical pros- 

 pectives. Perhaps the chap who conjured up the 

 following apparition in verse was one of these : 



"When the golden days of autumn 

 Cloud the hills in smoky haze, 

 And life to us seems dearer 

 For the shortness of the days, 



