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The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)

Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 456

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iously to me, she caught me bythe ear and pinched it so severely that I cried for mercy; tothe punishment she added this just reproof: That insect hasits feelings as you have! do you not see that the swift vibrationsof its wings are occasioned by the torment it sustains? youhave pierced its body… … 116. Boy and BuTTiRrLv.—XIV. Century. I 390 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK IV The preceding representation is from a drawing on a manu-script in the Royal Library.^ This barbarous sport is exceedingly ancient. We find itmentioned by Aristophanes in his comedy of The Clouds.^ Itis called in the Greek…

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