20 SPORT INDEED 



But, with all due respect to William Shakespeare, I 

 would remind him that it is not from out the female 

 sex alone that Cupid chooses his candidates for the 

 madhouse. The "knavish lad" is no respecter of 

 persons or sex, as the immortal William would dis- 

 cover if his canonized bones could burst their cere- 

 ments, quit their narrow bed and visit this summer 

 habitat of the curly-headed god. 



Now I come to think of it, William's bones need not 

 go to that trouble. The sad, lamenting tone of his 

 words : 



" O, love's bow shoots buck and doe," 



proves that he knew the ambi-sexibility of Cupid's 

 tricks quite as well as he seems to have known every- 

 thing else. 



Funny indeed are some of the doings of engaged 

 couples. Here is an instance, and I hope the inter- 

 esting couple with " hearts that beat as one " will 

 pardon me for giving it away to the cold and un- 

 appreciating world. They made the sad discovery 

 that their canoe was too small to hold an embryo 

 bride and her best young man at the same time ; but 

 love, that " laughs at locksmiths," surely would not 

 cry at a less serious emergency. Its resources are 

 much too ready for that. They placed two canoes 

 side by side, bound them together with a pair of en- 

 circling arms and, with a guide to paddle in the stern 

 of each love-laden vessel, went on their way rejoicing. 



