The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, 1841 (1841)
Joseph Strutt (1749-1802), William Hone (1780-1842) · leaf 387
escribing the effects of a wet and stormy season, says, The folds stand empty in the drownea field, And crows are fatted with the murrain flock, The nine mens’ morris is filled up with mud. XIV.—FOX AND GEESE. This is a game somewhat resembling tit of merelles in the manner the pieces are moved,… … To play this game there are seventeen pieces, called geese, which are placed as we see them upon the engraving, and the
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![An illustration from The geomancie / of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman. A booke, no lesse pleasant and recreatiue, then of a wittie inuention, to knovve all thinges, past, present, and to come. Whereunto is annexed the wheele of Pythagoras. Translated out of French into our English tongue [by Francis Sparry]. (1591)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/wellcome-wellcome_b30337860-245-2.webp)
