... 'ithis period. Brand , m'ention of ak amuseementat :this period, wbererein bol-. ?? and ball-play- are referred ito.' ' At stool-ball, Lucia, tet us play, For sugar, cakes, or wine, Or for a: tansy let us pay- - The lot be thine or mine- If thou, muy dear ...

... up the old fashion, and always commeneus its cricelt season with a match on Easter Monday. P'robably the old players at stool-ball or hanid-ball, like the modern cricketers, imeant to express nothing snore mystic than their pleasure at tho prospect of ...

... theorists bave set up a claim for NA.1'SICAA, Who plays a bill game in the '`Odrssev. Old CHIArMAN, in this passage, is s11 for stool-ball, which was tho origin of uciekit. Nausicaa With otber virgins did at stool-baln pilay. She struck thle liking stroke, ...

... these they also retain their native weapon the assegai. A STOOL-BALL MATCH AT HORSHAM PARK IN our issue of September 20th we gave some account of the ancient national woman's game of Stool-ball, or tuts, front which cricket probably is derived. It ...

... whey~e oral stool-ball criokette, and other gamnes wore practised. men on the Lord's Day. Thus, at that early date, a die- toy's tinction was already taken, even by a- Puritan Who wee no sportsman, between cricket and stool-ball. Then we hear, I ...

... came from two old ones called stool-ball, and tip-cat, which was also known as cat and dog. From stool-ball was hor- rowed the first wicket-a stool, or cricket-which, perhaps, gave its name to the game.. From stool-ball, too, we have the custom of tossing ...

... has recently taken place a match at stool-ball, at Mitford, be- -j tween, a team ot that parish and an eleven from Netherwit- . ton. It was keenly contested, and resulted in a win by the former by one run. Stool-ball is probably now played for the first ...

... and that it had been used by the adult villagers during that period for the purpose of playing snbh games as skittles, stool-ball, and ninepins. Tyro or three years ago the plaintiff bought the ground from the lord of the manor, enclosed it with a wire ...

... has become too scientific and 1 severe an exercise for the average woman, there are still such pastimesas badminton and stool-ball, which give more exercise and excitement than croquet. h SOCIETY AND THEE STAGE. b FROM THE LONDON CORRESPONDENCE OF THEZ ...

... century) may have been the parent of cricket, but both cat and :dog (mention (If which occurs in the sisxtentb century) and stool-ball (freqnently referred to in the seven- teooith century) have a closer affinity. (ricket was played in Guildford in the ...

... s arc pldnty, hit vwleroa are the LsncelotsY A ?? called basket-bhl is phl -ed, its naturo unknown, 0 poossibly it is stool-ball, possibly La Crosse, re c.'nceivablyl bose-ball, with a soft ball. De- y 1.arting seniors a re wreathed with daisy olailns ...

... itt still Ininsua~ttl ill sooieaty. Amiong tho Ovly osrly (Orettits, danoing woa combhinod witlh, a kind of criok t or stool-ball, as Nvo read itt Iotinr. Themr eva e rhyth- i UiOIl ?? aeooinpanying ball thro w- ilig a niml vatul itig. It wls n Lost ...