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 30
lers werecompelled to sell them at three shil-lings and fourpence each (about 83cents), but in Queen Marys time theprice was fixed at six shillings andeightpence ($1.56) for the best bows,and two shillings (50 cents) for aninferior kind. Roger Ascham, an Englishman,who wrote, in 1544, a book on… … Egyptian Archer. breast, but he prefers that it bedrawn to the ear, the method of theEnglish archers. He advises youngarchers to shoot at lights in thenight, that they may learn to look atthe mark in aiming, and not at thearrow. Ancient archers were skilled inshooting long distances. By an act of…
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