The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, Volume 4Longmans, Green and Company, 1897 - Sports |
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Page 28 - Down in a vale, on a summer's day, All the lads and lasses met to be merry ; A match for kisses at stool-ball to play, And for cakes and ale, and cider and perry. Chorus. Come all, great, small, short, tall, away to stool-ball.
Page 35 - As at Hot-cockles once I laid me down, And felt the weighty hand of many a Clown; 100 Buxoma gave a gentle tap, and I Quick rose, and read soft mischief in her eye.
Page 56 - When we please to walk abroad For our recreation, In the fields is our abode, Full of delectation : Where in a brook With a hook, Or a lake, Fish we take : There we sit, For a bit, Till we fish entangle.
Page 377 - jingle". A jingle is a square box of painted canvas with no -back to it, because, as was luminously explained to me, you must have some way to get into it, and I had to sit sideways in it^ with my portmanteau bucking like a three-year-old on the seat opposite to me. It fell out on the road twice going uphill. After the second fall my hair tonic slowly oozed forth from the seams, and added a fresh ingredient to the smells of the grimy cushions and the damp hay that furnished the machine. My hair tonic...
Page 376 - Ross. London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co. 1903. Kingdom a worse-planned entrance gate than Robert Trinder's. You come at it obliquely on the side of a crooked hill, squeeze between its low pillars with an inch to spare each side, and immediately drop down a yet steeper hill, which lasts for the best part of a quarter of a mile. The jingle went swooping and jerking down into the unknown, till, through the portholes on either side of the driver's legs, I saw Lisangle House. It had looked...
Page 599 - But he meant, he said, to see the match. I remember well his figure, seated in a closed carriage, wrapped in a white greatcoat, about a hundred and fifty yards from the bridge. As soon as he saw that the Westminsters were ahead, he pulled down the blinds and drove back to the Castle, which I do not think he afterwards left.
Page 67 - ... made out a body of them to the right, so I backed my paddle and looked along my big gun to see how to take them. They seemed a bit too quiet for geese. Then I thought it was a piece of wreck, but I couldn't see any break in the line of it. However, I see it move, so thinks I, " Well, here goes," when part of a cloud cleared off from the moon, and there lay his punt, with him in it. Another two seconds, and I should have killed or sunk him. Instead, I backed my other paddle, and, without waiting...
Page 261 - Before starting each competitor must obtain from the Secretary a scoring card, and, in the absence of a special marker, the players will note each other's score. They must satisfy the'mselves at the finish of...
Page 301 - Now winde they a Recheat, the rows'd Dear's knell ; And through the Forrest all the Beasts are aw'd ; Alarm'd by Ecchoe, Nature's Sentinel, Which shews that Murdrous Man is come abroad.
Page 128 - ... come sir — on the virtue of your solemn oath, what did you get that pistol for?" "On. the virtue of my solemn oath, I got it for three and nine-pence in Mr. Richardson's shop." At another time the same counsel said to a witness: "You're a nice fellow, ain't you?" Witness replied, "I am, sir; and, if I was not on my oath, I'd say the same of you.