The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, 1841 (1841)
Joseph Strutt (1749-1802), William Hone (1780-1842) · leaf 469
400 SPORTS AND PASTIMES ROOK IV, knotted thong. I presume it to be the installation of the King of the Bean, who has already been introduced to the reader. Below it are two figures, one of them blinded with his hood, having a club upon his shoulder, and approaching towards an iron cauldron, in… … This may probably refer to the amusement at wakes and fairs, where various tasks for pastime sake are frequently as- signed to blindfolded persons, as the Wheelbarrow Race, de- scribed on a preceding page.'! The drawings from whence the two last engravings are derived, are in the Bodleian MS. of…
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