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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
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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