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
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… … 128 This trick being done by the one was probably imitated bythe other; I speak however from conjecture only. If it benecessary for him Avho stoops to take any thing out of the water,the pastime will bear some analogy to the diving for applesrepresented by the engraving No. 119, on a preceding…
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