The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 409
said wirework may be of the simplest construction,and the meshes large, for it is the blunt end of a stick merely FIRST POSITION IN THREE MOTIONS. One.—Move the hands to the rear, the left grasping theright arm just above the elbow, and the right supporting the leftarm under the elbow. Two.—Half… … REGULATION SWORD—OLD PATTERN that has to be kept out, not the sharp point of a broken foil.In learning the sword exercise, the first thing to be practisedbefore a weapon is put into the pupils hand, is THE POSITION. Assume the military attitude of attention, i.e., shoulder andbody square to the…
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