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The girl's own book (1833)

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 · New York : Clark Austin & co. · leaf 120

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HORIZONTAL BAR. The performer, taking hold of the horizontal bar, swingsbackward and forward until the swing is sufficient to admit oftaking the hands from the bar, each time of swinging back-ward from it, and catching it again; but the bar should betelinquished only when in the position described… … THE TRIANGLE. This is a bar of wood supported at each end by a cord. Thetwo cords meet together at some distance above, and uniting,pass over a pulley, so that it may be fastened at any height tosuit the performer. For the following exercises, the barshould be about the height of the knees. 116 THE…

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