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 460
C. T) these colorsare carefully watched, for the kindof steel depends on the time when itis taken from the fire and cooled.If the knitting-needle be cooled when it is yellow, for instance, itwill be much harder than if cooledwhen it is blue. KNURR AND SPELL, corruptedinto Northern Spell, a gameof… … Knurr and Spell. The ball is of wood or white porce-lain, about an inch and a half in di-ameter. The players take turns atthe bat, and, sending the ball intothe air from the trap, as in TrapBall, try to knock it with the batas far away as possible. The dis-tance of the spot where the ballstrikes…
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