The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 153
mmencement ofthe game, in five-card cribbage, scores threopoints, called taking three for last; but insix and eight-card cribbage this is not done. Some parties permit flushes in play to boreckoned, when three or more cards of a suitare laid down successively; that is, the per-son playing the third… … Of all the English athletic games, none per-haps presents so fine a scope for bringing intofull and constant play the qualities both of themind and body as that of cricket. A manwho is essentially stupid will not make a finecricketer; neither will he who is not essenti-ally active. He must be…
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