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The Book of Sports

by William Martin

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Part I — Games With Marbles — Ring Taw
  3. 3Lag Out or Knock Out
  4. 4Three Holes
  5. 5Arches
  6. 6Bonce-Eye
  7. 7Sun and the Planet Taw
  8. 8Pyramid
  9. 9Part II — Games for Cold Weather — “Prisoners’ Base”
  10. 10Stag Out
  11. 11Warning
  12. 12Mouse in the Corner
  13. 13King of the Castle
  14. 14Hippas
  15. 15Thread the Needle
  16. 16Touch
  17. 17Bowls
  18. 18Quoits
  19. 19Why and Because
  20. 20Bombardment of a Snow Castle
  21. 21Bandy Ball or Golf
  22. 22Foot Ball
  23. 23Trussing
  24. 24Blindman’s Buff
  25. 25Tip-Cat
  26. 26Jingling
  27. 27French and English
  28. 28Part III — Dangerous Games
  29. 29Heap the Bushel
  30. 30Drawing the Oven
  31. 31Hop-Scotch — Basting the Bear
  32. 32Buck, Buck
  33. 33Part IV — Gymnastics
  34. 34Part V — Cricket
  35. 35Part VI — Swimming
  36. 36Part VII — Gardening
  37. 37Pruning
  38. 38Grafting and Budding
  39. 39Shifting of Crops
  40. 40How to Manage a Little Garden All the Year Round
  41. 41Part VIII — Carpentering
  42. 42Part IX — Keeping Poultry
  43. 43Part X — Bees

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