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 (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 462
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. Diving for Apples.i^No. 2, B. vii. Addition to Bournes Vulg. Antiq, 3.92 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK IV. A pastime somethingrcsemblingtliat 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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