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 669
snow-balls. The object of one of theparties should be to drive theothers from some position, whichthe latter strive to hold. This isgenerally a fort built of snow, and asnow fight should usually be thesiege of a snow fort. One kind offort is built of great balls of snow,made by rolling, which are… … to make a snow fort is to dig it froma drift, piling up on every side thesnow taken out. If the drift is firm-ly packed, snow may often be takenout in great square blocks, withwhich a regular wall can be built.In making a fort, care should betaken to shape it so that the be-siegers will be exposed…
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