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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Book of Sports:, 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
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOOK OF SPORTS: ***
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Materials (PALMM))
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 Preface vii I Games with Marbles Ring Taw Lag Out or Knock Out - photo 1
CONTENTS.

Preface vii

I. Games with Marbles.

Ring Taw

Lag Out or Knock Out

Three Holes

Arches

Bonce-Eye

Sun and Planet Taw

Pyramid

II. Games for Cold Weather.

Prisoners' Base

Stag Out

Warning

Mouse in the Corner

King of the Castle

Hippas

Thread the Needle

Touch

Bowls

Quoits

Why and Because

Bombardment of a Snow Castle

Bandy Ball or Golf

Foot Ball

Trussing

Follow my Leader

Blindman's Buff

Tip-Cat

Jingling

French and English

III. Dangerous Games.

Heap the bushel

Drawing the Oven

Hop-Scotch

Basting the Bear

Buck, Buck

IV. Gymnastics.

Walking

Running

Leaping

Climbing

Rope Ladder

Slant Board

Vaulting

Balancing

V. Cricket.

Laws of the Game of Double Wicket

The Bowler

The Striker

The Wicket-Keeper

Laws for Single Wicket

Bets

VI. Swimming.

Preliminary Exercises in Swimming

Bernardi's System

VII. Gardening.

How to keep a Garden all the year round, with directions for each month

VIII. Carpentering.

Uses of the various Tools:Plane, Chisel Gimlet, Mallet, Hammer, Files and Nails.

Stuff and Labour

IX. Keeping Poultry.

Nature and Situation of Fowl-House

The Various Breeds of Fowl

Choice of Stock

Food and Feeding

Laying

Preservation of Eggs

Hatching Chickens

X. Bees.

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 mannerA circle should be drawn about four feet - photo 2

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."

LAG OUT OR KNOCK OUT.

This game is played by throwing a marble against the wall, which rebounds to a distance. Others then follow; and the boy whose marble strikes against any of the others is the winner. Some boys play the game in a random manner; but the boy who plays with skill judges nicely of the law of forces, that is, he calculates exactly the force of the rebound, and the direction of it.

The first law of motion is, that everything preserves a state of rest, or of uniform rectilineal (that is, straight, motion), unless affected by some moving force.

Second law.Every change of motion is always proportioned to the degree of the moving force by which it is produced, and it is made in the line of direction in which that force is impressed.

Third law.Action and reaction are always equal and contrary, or the mutual action of two bodies upon each other are always equal and directed to contrary parts.

To illustrate the first of these laws,a marble will never move from the ground of itself, and once put in motion, it will preserve that motion until some other power operates upon it in a contrary direction.

With regard to playing Lag Out so as to win, you must further understand the principle of reflected motion. If you throw your marble in a straight line against the wall, you find that it comes back to you nearly in a straight line again. If you throw it ever so slightly on one side, or obliquely, it will fly off obliquely on the opposite side. If you throw the marble from the point C to the point B , it will fly off in the direction of the point A , and if a marble lay there it would hit it; but if you threw it from the point D , you would stand no chance.

In science the angle C B D is called the angle of incidence and D B A - photo 3

In science, the angle C, B, D , is called the angle of incidence, and D, B, A , is called the angle of reflection.

THREE HOLES.
Three Holes is not a bad game To play it you must make three small holes - photo 4
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