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 458
ee a sport of this kind where fourpersons are playing, but the object they are aiming at is muchlarger than a cherry, and was probably intended to representan apple or an orange. It was customary, we are told byMr. Brand, on the eve of All-Hallows, for the young peoplein the north to dive for… … 119. PiviNG >0B Apples.No. 2, B. vii. * Additioa to Bournes Vulk,. Aaiicj. SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK IV A pastime something resembling that of diving for the apples,I take it, is represented by the foregoing engraving from a MS.in the Bodleian Library,^ and the business of the boy uponthe form,…
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