Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 149
eighteen feet.In the seventeenth century lived a clever Englishman, J 146 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. William Stokes, who combined theory with practice, andwho boasted that he had mastered the true principles of theart of leaping. These he expounded in a book originallypublished at… … The Game of the Greased Bottle. (After Rapom.) tholomew. Strutt, the author of a standard work on thegames and amusements of the people of England, says thatthe most extraordinary jumper of whom he had any recordwas one named Ireland, of the county of York, who waseighteen years of age, six feet…
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