Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 66
erpart of the hoop, which produce, in the opinion of someboys, an agreeable jingle. There is no horse, however welltrained, which obeys the hands of the rider with such pre-cision. There is no ship, with the best j)ilot, which ^o cor-rectly follows the guidance of its rudder. Here is a hoop,ruled… … a triangle, or, in a word, all the series of geometrical figures.Many players can contest together with their hoops, andchallenge each other, to know who shall drive his hoop thelongest time without getting out of breath, or who shallfirst reach a goal agreed on. In this latter case, all theplayers…
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