The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 773
Fig. 2. fOPS are universal favourites, and deservedly so, for thereare few toys from which one can obtain more pleasantVXZ/ and healthy recreation. In choosing a whip-top, you should take care that it be nottoo high in proportion to its width, or it will overbalance. It … Fig. 1. must not be too short either, or you will find it impossible tostrike it properly with the whip. The whip may be made of various sorts of material; soft buffleather does very well, or one may use a few leather boot-lacesfastened to a handle ; or a piece of rope will do, the twisting of…
Amusements · Games · Sports
Internet Archive · Boston Public Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
