The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 295
^ we drove staples, to l&Sm which a rope could be fastened. 1 should, moreover,advise iron pins insteadof, or as well as, ordinarythowls. We had themas well as thowls, therebeing halfway betweeneach thowl-hole a holelor an iron pin half aninch thick. Then, if we wished to use thowls, we took… … ** The great thing in punting is not to lose your pole.
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