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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements Author: Various Editor: Edmund Routledge Release Date: February 23, 2013 [EBook #42172] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVERY BOY'S BOOK: SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS *** Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Please see Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text. EVERY BOY’S BOOK: A COMPLETE ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. EDITED BY EDMUND ROUTLEDGE. With more than Six Hundred Illustrations FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS. LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE. NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET. 1869. R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill, London. EDITORS PREFACE. The twelve years that have passed since the first edition of E B ’ B VERY OY S OOK was published, have brought so many changes in our national sports and pastimes, and have seen the introduction of so many new games, that it has been thought desirable to remodel this work, in order to bring it down to the requirements of the present time. In carrying out this plan effectually, E VERY B ’ B has been almost entirely rewritten; and scarcely anything now OY S OOK remains of the old work except the title. All the articles that were in the former edition have been thoroughly revised, and papers on Boxing, Canoeing, Croquet, Fives, Golf, Rackets, Sliding, Billiards, Bagatelle, Dominoes, Spectrum Analysis, Canaries, Hedgehogs, Jackdaws, Jays, Magpies, Owls, Parrots, Ravens, Boats, Cryptography, Deaf and Dumb Alphabet, Dominoes, Mimicry and Ventriloquism, Shows, Stamp Collecting, and Tinselling, appear now for the first time. In carrying out this work much valuable assistance has been given by Professor Pepper, the Rev. J. G. Wood, W. B. Tegetmeier, Clement Scott, Sidney Daryl, J. T. Burgess, Dr. Viner, Thomas Archer, W. Robinson of the Field, Cholmondeley Pennell, and other well-known writers on sports. The articles at the end of this work on American Billiards, Base Ball, and the Canadian sport of La Crosse, have been contributed by Henry Chadwick, the leading authority on these games in America. C , 1868. HRISTMAS PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION. It would be impossible for a single author to produce a book of this description with a fair prospect of success, because it necessarily treats of many subjects; and a perfect acquaintance with some of the more important would occupy a lifetime. The reading and researches of one man would not be sufficiently extensive to embrace the rich variety of the materials required. Being fully convinced of this fact, the Publishers have endeavoured to obtain the aid of the most distinguished writers in the various departments of knowledge which the following pages are intended to illustrate. Thus each contributor, in furnishing his quota of information for the work, has been engaged in a congenial task, one best suited to his peculiar turn of mind, as well as to his individual acquirements, and one upon which he could, therefore, with the greatest ease and accuracy dilate. This brief explanation will show in what spirit the Publishers embarked in the undertaking; and the accompanying list of the writers may be received as a proof that they have succeeded in securing the services of the most competent authorities. With that portion of the book with which he was practically acquainted each of the following gentlemen has dealt: W. Martin, Esq., C. Baker, Esq., R. B. Wormald, Esq., J. F. Wood, Esq., A. McLaren, Esq., Stonehenge, author of “Rural Sports,” and the Rev. J. G. Wood, author of several works on Natural History, who also furnished some of the designs. The remaining illustrations are by William Harvey and Harrison Weir; and the credit for the able manner in which they have been engraved is due to the brothers Dalziel. 2, F S , ARRINGDON TREET February, 1856. CONTENTS. PART I. EASY GAMES WITHOUT TOYS. OUTDOOR. PAGE Hop, Step, and Jump 1 Hopping on the Bottle 2 Hop-Scotch 2 French and English 3 Drawing the Oven 4 I Spy 4 Pitch-Stone 3 Duck-Stone 5 Prisoner’s Base, or Prison Bars 5 Fox 7 Baste the Bear 7 Leap-Frog 8 Fly the Garter 8 Spanish Fly 9 Touch 10 Touch-Wood and Touch-Iron 10 Buck, Buck, how many Horns do I hold up? 10 Warning 10 Follow my Leader 11 The Fugleman 11 Hare and Hounds 11 Steeple Chase 13 Duck and Drake 13 Simon Says 14 King of the Castle King of the Castle 14 Battle for the Banner 14 Snow-Balls 15 Snow Castle 16 Snow Giant 17 Jack! Jack! show a Light! 18 Jingling 19 Jump little Nag-tail! 19 Jumping Rope 20 My Grandmother’s Clock 20 Rushing Bases 21 See-saw 21 Thread the Needle 22 Tom Tiddler’s Ground 22 Two to One 22 Walk, Moon, Walk! 22 Want a day’s work? 23 Will you List? 23 Whoop! 24 High Barbaree! 24 Bull in the Ring 24 Cock Fight 25 Dropping the Handkerchief 25 INDOOR. Blind Man’s Buff 26 Bob-Cherry 26 Buff 27 Concert 27 Consequences 28 Cross Questions & Crooked Answers 28 Dumb Motions 29 Family Coach 29 Frog in the Middle 30 The Four Elements 31 Hand 31 Hot Boiled Beans Hot Boiled Beans 32 Hot Cockles 32 How? Where? and When? 32 Hunt the Slipper 33 Hunt the Ring 33 Hunt the Whistle 33 Magic Music 34 Post 34 Proverbs 35 Puss in the Corner 36 Red-Cap and Black-Cap 36 Shadow Buff 37 Slate Games 37 Trades 40 Trussed Fowls 40 The Two Hats 40 What is my Thought like? 41 EASY GAMES WITH TOYS. OUTDOOR. BALLS 43 Catch Ball 43 Doutee-Stool 43 Egg-Hat 44 Feeder 44 Monday, Tuesday 45 Nine-Holes 46 Northern Spell 46 Rounders 46 Sevens 48 Stool-Ball 48 Trap, Bat, and Ball 48 HOOPS 49 The Hoop

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