The Little Boy's Own Book of Sports and Pastimes: Illustrated with Numerous EngravingsDavid Bogue, 1855 - 222 pages |
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Page 79
... lime - twigs , and little traps , Among a jocund choir of caged songsters ? - " hese are the Bird - catchers , AT the present day , there is scarcely a house , in which a singing - bird of some sort or other is not kept . The Linnet and ...
... lime - twigs , and little traps , Among a jocund choir of caged songsters ? - " hese are the Bird - catchers , AT the present day , there is scarcely a house , in which a singing - bird of some sort or other is not kept . The Linnet and ...
Page 80
... birds , if they ever have an opportunity of so doing ; advice to the latter as to the most proper mode of feeding , & c .; and such general directions on the subject of singing birds as may be acceptable to all who keep them BIRD - LIME .
... birds , if they ever have an opportunity of so doing ; advice to the latter as to the most proper mode of feeding , & c .; and such general directions on the subject of singing birds as may be acceptable to all who keep them BIRD - LIME .
Page 83
... birds as he may desire , from the dealers . In country places , he must exercise his talents and industry in catching old birds or branchers , either with traps or lime - twigs , or discovering and taking young ones from the nest . In ...
... birds as he may desire , from the dealers . In country places , he must exercise his talents and industry in catching old birds or branchers , either with traps or lime - twigs , or discovering and taking young ones from the nest . In ...
Page 87
... lime twigs : to take them in this manner , carry another Titlark for a call - bird , and when you have found a Titlark , place your call - bird six or seven yards from where you hear ... bird , which , from its fondness. SINGING BIRDS . 87.
... lime twigs : to take them in this manner , carry another Titlark for a call - bird , and when you have found a Titlark , place your call - bird six or seven yards from where you hear ... bird , which , from its fondness. SINGING BIRDS . 87.
Page 100
... lime - wash the inside of the reeding - cage once or twice in the summer season , to prevent the birds eing annoyed ... bird with water and its proper food , is a atter of still greater importance ; he who is at all negligent on this point , ...
... lime - wash the inside of the reeding - cage once or twice in the summer season , to prevent the birds eing annoyed ... bird with water and its proper food , is a atter of still greater importance ; he who is at all negligent on this point , ...
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amusement Angler angling bait ball Barbel beak bird BIRD-LIME bite blue body bottle bottom bowl breed cage called Canary candle Carp Chub cock colour Croydon Canal Dace dewlap distance ears fanciers Fancy pigeons fancy rabbits fastened feat feathers feed fingers fish float Fly-fishing frequently give glass green drake grey ground ground-bait Gudgeon hair half head hemp-seed holes hook hutches inches Jacobine keep latter light marble move nest party pastime Perch performed person phosphorescent phosphorus piece pigeon play player plumage ponds popping crease Pouter quill readers red worms right hand ring river Thames rivers Roach shell shew side sing sport strike striker string tail taken Tench thread three or four throw touch trap trick Trout Tumblers Turbit turn wicket wicket-keeper wings wire wood yards yellow young
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Page 217 - Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath, Attends at his birth and awaits him in death, Presides o'er his happiness, honour, and health, Is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth. In the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care, But is sure to be lost on his prodigal heir.
Page 130 - The full-grown condor measures, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, from...
Page 56 - And be it enacted, that if any person shall at any time be found fishing against the provisions of this act...
Page 217 - Twas whispered in heaven, twas muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell ; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.
Page 217 - Twill be found in the sphere when 'tis riven asunder, Be seen in the lightning, and heard in the thunder ; 'Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath, Attends at his birth and awaits him in death, Presides o'er his happiness, honour, and health, Is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth.
Page 18 - I have been informed, that a pastime called stool-ball is practised to this day in the northern parts of England, which consists in simply setting a stool upon the ground, and one of the players takes his place before it, while his antagonist, standing at a distance, tosses a ball with the intention of striking the stool; and this it is the business of the former to prevent by beating it away with the hand, reckoning one to the game for every stroke of the ball ,if, on the contrary, it should be...
Page 31 - They place certain bones — the leg-bones of animals — under the soles of their feet, by tying them round their ankles ; and then, taking a pole shod with iron into their hands, they push themselves forward by striking it against the ice, and are carried on with a velocity equal to the flight of a bird, or a bolt discharged from a crossbow.
Page 171 - Cement the figure to the plane part of the hemisphere ; and, iu whatever position it is placed, when left to itself, it will rise upright. In this manner were constructed those small figures, called Prussians, sold at Paris : they were formed into battalions, and being made to fall down, by drawing a rod over them, they immediately started up again as soon as it was removed. We think, that the figure of a beau, or master of the ceremonies, is much more appropriate for this trick, than that of a soldier...
Page 32 - ... end, and it will rise with a rotatory motion, high enough for him to beat it away as it falls, in the same manner as he would a ball. There are various methods of playing the game of cat, but we shall only notice the two that follow.
Page 45 - ... 34. If any person stop the ball with his hat, the ball shall be considered as dead, and the opposite party shall add five notches to their score ; if any be run, they are to have five in all. 35. If the ball be struck, the striker may guard his wicket either with his bat, or his body.