The boy\s own toy-maker: a practical illustrated guide to the useful employment of leasure hours (1881)
Ebenezer Landells. · leaf 149
/ BALLS. … Games played with balls are of great antiquity. The Greeks used four kinds, viz. : the little ball, the great ball, the empty ball, and the leathern ball. The empty ball was blown up with air, something like the foot ball of the present time; and the leathern ball •was stuffed with sand or bran,…
Toys · Amusements 19th century
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