The Book of Sports: Containing Out-Door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering (TREDITION CLASSICS)

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by  William Martin

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Title: The Book of Sports:
Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations,
Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering
Author: William Martin
Release Date: April 14, 2008 [EBook #25068]
Language: English
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THE
BOOK OF SPORTS:
CONTAINING
OUT-DOOR SPORTS,
AMUSEMENTS AND RECREATIONS,
INCLUDING
GYMNASTICS, GARDENING & CARPENTERING,
For Boys and Girls.
BY
WILLIAM MARTIN,
AUTHOR OF "FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY," "THE PARLOUR BOOK,"
"INTELLECTUAL CALCULATOR," ETC. ETC. ETC.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
DARTON AND CO., HOLBORN HILL.
M.DCCC.LII.
J. WERTHEIMER AND CO., PRINTERS, FINSBURY CIRCUS.

CONTENTS.
P vii
REFACE
I. G M .
AMES WITH ARBLES
Ring Taw 9
Lag Out or Knock Out 10
Three Holes 12
Arches 13
BonceEye 13
Sun and Planet Taw 15
Pyramid 19
II. G C W .
AMES FOR OLD EATHER
Prisoners' Base 21
Stag Out 22
Warning 23
Mouse in the Corner 23
King of the Castle 24
Hippas 24
Thread the Needle 24
Touch 25
Bowls 26
Quoits 27
Why and Because 27
Bombardment of a Snow Castle 29
Bandy Ball or Golf 31
Foot Ball 32
Trussing 32
Follow my Leader 33
33
34
35
36
Blindman's Buff
Tip-Cat
Jingling
French and English
vii
III. D G .
ANGEROUS AMES
Heap the bushel
Drawing the Oven
9 Hop-Scotch
10 Basting the Bear
12 Buck, Buck
13
13
IV. G .
YMNASTICS
15
19
Walking
Running
Leaping
Climbing
21 Rope Ladder
22 Slant Board
23 Vaulting
23 Balancing
24
24
V. C .
RICKET
24
25
Laws of the Game of Double
26 Wicket
27 The Bowler
27 The Striker
29 The Wicket-Keeper
31 Laws for Single Wicket
32 Bets
32
33
33
34
35
36
VI. S .
WIMMING
Preliminary Exercises in Swimming
Bernardi's System
VII. G .
ARDENING
How to keep a Garden all the year
round, with directions for each
month
VIII. C .
ARPENTERING
Uses of the various Tools:—Plane,
Chisel Gimlet, Mallet, Hammer,
Files and Nails.
Stuff and Labour
IX. K P .
EEPING OULTRY
Nature and Situation of Fowl-
House
The Various Breeds of Fowl
Choice of Stock
Food and Feeding
Laying
Preservation of Eggs
Hatching Chickens
X. B .
EES
Queen Bee.—Drone.—
Construction of Nests.—How to get
a Stock of Bees.—Hiving
PREFACE.
The prime object of this book is to induce and to teach boys and girls to spend
their hours out of school in such a manner, as to gain innocent enjoyment while
they promote their own health and bodily strength. The Author has never lost
sight of this object, considering it to be what properly belongs to a Book of
Sports.
He has, however, in many instances, had in view, in a subordinate degree, the
intellectual improvement of his young readers. He hopes that several of the
games, now described in print for the first time, will be found, if not "royal
roads," at least delightful ones, to the knowledge of many scientific facts. There
seems to be no good reason why the utile (considered intellectually as well as
bodily) should not find its place in the sports of young people, if it be so skilfully
combined with the dulce as not to convert pleasure into toil.
To those who assent to what has been stated, the introduction of a chapter on
gardening will need no apology.
PART I.
GAMES WITH MARBLES.
One of the best games with marbles is
RING TAW.
This is played in the following manner:—A circle should be drawn about four
feet in diameter, and an inner circle of about six inches being also marked out in
its centre, into this each boy puts a marble. "Now then, boys, knuckle down at
the offing, which is in any part of the outer circle. Now, whoever shoots a
marble out of the ring is entitled to go on again: so mind your shots; a good shot
may clear the ring. After the first shot, the players do not shoot from the offing,
but from the place where the marble stops after it has been shot from the
knuckle. Every marble struck out of the ring belongs to the party who hits it; but
if the taw remains in the inner ring, either after it has struck a marble or not, the
player is out, and must put in all the marbles he has won. If one player strike
another player's taw, the player to whom the taw belongs is out; and he must
give up all the marbles he has won to the player whose taw struck his."