The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 109
astened to the boomonly at the corners. BOAT RACING. See Rowing. BOBECHON, a game played byany number of persons with the toyshown in the illustration, which ismade as follows: Make a tightroll of flannel or cloth, about threeinches high and half an inch in di-ameter, and secure it by windingthread… … Bobechon. is placed upright in the center of anordinary dinner plate, and a smallcoin is laid on the top of the flannelroll. The object is to remove bothBobechon and coin from the platewith a flexible rod or cane, like theend of a fishing rod. The coin neednot keep its place on the flannel roll,so…
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