For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 115
borate affairs are relegated to the little girls and kiltedboys, while the sturdy legs of the real small boy run tire-lessly after the old wooden hoop. 96 Spring A Reminiscence. The greatest triumph of my hoop-time days was whenmy parents bought some sugar hogsheads, which were cutup for… … Fig. ^(i.—Hoop-time. when I bore down on a street full of my play-mates rollingthis giant hoop in front of me, all the metal store-hoops andwooden barrel hoops ceased rolling, while the boys stoodrespectfully aside to let me pass. It was a great triumph,and was talked about long afterward as the…
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