The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 670
DE, ^HIS is essentially a school exercise, and requires an out-door apparatus, frequently found in preparatory schoolsfor smaller boys, but not in larger schools, where the su-perior class of out-door games take precedence of everythingelse. OR HURDY-GURDY. The apparatus consists of a stout spar or… … Fig. 1. THE GIANT STRIDE. As in its practice it is closely allied to the exercise of leaping■with the fixed rope, it may not be out of place briefly to alludeio it. It affords more variety and interest to boys than the morehumdrum formality of leaping with a fixed rope in a gymnasium,and from the…
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