For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 65
spinner can hope to have many sailors in his pocketunless he hunts them in the gravel-pit in place of com-peting for them at the bull ring or between the taw lines. Fig. 24 shows the wooden shovel or spoon which eachplayer should make for himself with his own pocket-knife.Sweet smelling red cedar… … Fig. 24.—The Wooden Chip Stone Shovel. sportsman, be he man or boy, takes great pride in hisguns, fish-rods, skates, golf-sticks, or top-whips; and suchboys prefer for a top-whip an eel-skin fastened to a shortwooden handle. Country boys catch their own eels, city boys get theskins at the fish…
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