Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 163
one on hard ground, and at anytime the rider is liable to be brought off backwards with ajerk, under which circumstances he will be thankful tomeasure his length on the soft turf, instead of lumpy gravelor unyielding pavement. ROSAMONDS BOWER. This cut represents, it is said, the Maze at Woodstock,… … Rosamonds bower, boys OWiT BOOK. 149 CHESS. Chess, of all sedentary games, is undoubtedly the mosteminent. Various accounts have been given of its origin.Some say it was first played at the siege of Troy, being in-vented by Palamedes to amUse the Grecian chiefs, disgustedwith the tediousncss of the…
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