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 78
d by the action of the legs. A superior mode of making stilts is by substituting a piece of wood, flat on the upper surface, for the leather loop ; the foot rests on and is fas- _tened by a strap to it; a piece of leather or rope is also nailed to the stilt, and passed round the leg just below the…
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