Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 427
About tops, marbles, ball, hop-scotch, hoop-rolling, and such games I need say little, formost of them are played in much the same 300 CHILD LIFE IN GERMANY. [Fa manner as in this country. The only tops Isaw in Germany were whip-tops, which mustbe familiar to you all from old-fashioned… … very tame to American boys. They neverhave developed any one great national game,like baseball or cricket; indeed, athletics havelittle hold in Germany, except in the matter ofpure gymnastics, such as involve the use ofparallel and horizontal bars, dumb-bells, leap- ing, etc. Baseball, football,…
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