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The Outdoor Handy Book: For Playground Field and Forest by D. C. Beard

By D. C. Beard

Ingenuity and self-reliance are useful traits in a boy or man," writes famed outdoorsman Daniel Carter Beard. And what larger strategy to foster them than by way of working—or playing—with your fingers? For fathers who are looking to construct the version ships (or actual boats!) they by no means knew the right way to construct, and sons who are looking to construct the last word snow citadel, The open air convenient e-book is an ideal compendium of knowledge and mischief. In its pages are instructions for flying paper dragons, stilt-walking, taking part in dozens of ball video games, construction doghouses, taking pictures butterflies and frogs, and masses extra. absolutely illustrated, and replete with notes to ensure that your enjoyable is different, non-stop, and educational in each season of the yr, The outdoors convenient Book is superb all-ages actions source, no matter if you are on the workbench or communing with nature.

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14). are numerous other games played in the cities which are the outof the cramped growth TAW LINE. the boys have for spaces FIG. 14. The Moon Ring. play-grounds, but as they differ in different cities and also in different parts of the same city and are only modifications of the games given here, they will be omitted. FIG. 15. Top Time in the City. A Game of Plug in the Ring on the Housetop. CHAPTER III TOP TIME Whip Tops Home-made Tops Stone THERE is Peg Tops Plug in the Ring Chip Racing Tops.

This game is sometimes called Injun, a corruption of Indian, probably because the game is a game of extermination. For, in order to win, you must kill all the other " " Hence, you can see that First plays at a disadplayers. vantage, there being no one for him to kill if he knocks out a duck he must replace it. If a taw stops inside the ring, that is a fatal shot, for he has killed himself and is out ; " of Fat " and Other Famous Games 35 So when the the game. he does not shoots player first knuckle down, but toes the taw line and tosses his taw for a good position near the ring.

Go " two boys spin their tops and then thrash the poor things until they bump together. The top that knocks its opponent out of the bull ring in which they At the word ! are spun is the King Top. It is considered a foul for one boy to strike his opponent's top with his whip or in any way interfere with it except by guiding his own top in the path A top that stops spinning is beaten, not with the whip, but by the other top that keeps alive. of the other. Racing Tops. Two taw lines are drawn on the hard ground or side" " all the boys in the game spin walk, and at the word Go their tops and belabor them with might and main, endeavoring at the same time to compel them to travel over the space between the taw lines before their opponents can cover the distance.

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