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 463
lose his balance, for that done, he must inevitablyfall into the water. In the following, from a beautiful book of prayers in thepossession of Francis Douce, esq. the task assigned to the youthis still more difficult, as well from the manner in which he isseated, as from the nature of the… … 127. The originals of botli these engravings were made in the four-teentli century. The su])joined engraving, also from a drawing in Mr. Doneesbook of prayers, represents two boys seated upon a form bythe side of a water-tub; both of them with their hands fixedbelow their knees, and one bending…
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