For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 356
old English name for wooden pins and the game inwhich they were used. The game of Bowls was like a game of marbles, with thisdifference, that in place of shooting asmall marble from the fingers a largewooden ball was rolled at a number ofother wooden balls placed some dis-tance away on the green.… … Fig. 269.—American Bowls. 330 Summer fringed with poplars, and has at one end a summer-house.Here three gentlemen in cocked hats read the newsand partake of refreshments. More refreshments are car-ried by a waiter. Old-fashioned dudes in cocked hatslook on, while a friend rolls a ball at the pins.…
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