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 40
it is more difficult on the parallels. Stand between the bars, catch hold ofthem with the hands, and stoop down until the shoulders are level with the bars;then raise the legs—keeping them straight—until the body is in position, as inFig. 45, when drop right over to Fig. 46; then back again, and… … commenced from the centre of and between the bars. Figs. 47 and 48 will conveythe idea to our readers. A great many movements may be gone through while inthis position, the necessary impetus being obtained by swinging the legs over thebars. Fig. 49 shows the most difficult of all the exercises upon…
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