The boy's own book; a complete encylopedia of all the diversion, athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth. (1834)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · Boston, Munroe and Francis; New York, C. S. Francis, 1834. · leaf 52
e placed on the ground; the palm of the left hand receiving the flat side of the upper limb; the string should be upward ; the handle is then to be pressed with the right arm so as to slacken the string; when the latter becomes loose enough, the eye is to be brought out of the nock, by the thumb of… … Great care should be taken to ae- quire a proper position, as represented in the marginal cut, for bad attitudes in Archery appear extremely ridiculous.
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