Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 130
ly, which is held between the two fore-flngers,touches the floor. Your knee and body may project overthe chalk Hne, if your feet keep their proper place, as abovedirected, on the outer side of it. THE GREAT WOODEN BALL.Casting the wooden ball is a very good recreation. Alarge wooden bowler, in… … 118 BOYS OWJf BOOK. common bowl used in skittle-alleys (we do not mean thoseused for nine-pins) will afford a pattern ; the maker must,however, remember that its dimensions are to be decreased,it being too heavy, and the finger-holes too far apart for theuse of boys. It ought to be adapted in size…
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