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 473
ingers of his right hand, varyingthe number at his pleasure, and the other is obliged to answerpromptly by exposing a like number of his fingers, which iscalled by both, and the least variation on either side loses. Inthese delineations there are three players, and he in the middleseems to be… … Here mc see a rope apparently made fast at both ends, anda man laying hold of it with his teeth, by which he seemsto support himself. If this be the meaning of the delineator,the trick may properly be classed with those that were exhibitedby the minstrels and the joculators.
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