... they proceeded to engage in the games and pastimes which had been arranged for their amusement. These consisted of cricket, stoolball, scrambling for sweetmeats, running for cheeses, jumping in sacks, and other sports. At half-past four the games terminated ...

... proceeded t> engage in the games and pastimes which had been arranged for their amusement. These consisted of crick.t, stoolball, scrambling for sweetmeats, running fot cheeses, jumping sacks, and other sports. At halfpast four the games terminated, ...

... published in 1621, a Palle- Mal le is said to be a wooden staffe to strike a boul with. We read of another game called stool-ball, in which balls are driven from stool to stool. In Poor Robin's Almanack for 1740, it is thus alluded to : Much time is ...

... their haivest holidays yesterday so'nnight, were assembled in the Summerhouse Field to learn the almost obsolete game of stool-ball, or woman’s cricket. Competent instructors were provided, the object being that this truly country amusement for women and ...

... children, 70 in number, sat down most excellent dinner, after which they proceeded the Lawn in front of the house, where stoolball and other rustic games were carried on with peat spirit, and numerous were the prises received the children from the hand ...

... proceeded to the Priory wound, where each child received a bun and an orange, ■M 1 sports of all kind were indulged in, such as stoolball, trap and bat, and other games; racing for gowns, Caps, bonnets, cheeses, &c. A large balloon had been Prepared, but unf ...

... dale, over hillock and far away, while the teachers and visitors, numbering nearly 150, partook of tea. Games of cricket, stool-ball, racing, and others, for which we have yet to find name, were then entered into with a spirit and a cordiality seldom surpassed; ...

... the heart any pastry cook and brewer in the kingdom and now to the games. Everything here was admirably managed, cricket, stool-ball, racing both for noys and girls, jumping in sacks, jingling, swings and climbing a pole lor a new hat, &c. Many and hard ...

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... were enjoying the manly game, the wives and daughters of Mrs. Talbot’s dependents were not forgotten. The local game of “Stool-ball” was pursued with immense vigour, and Mrs. Bentley and Mrs. Harris were especially remarked for their activity. Tea and ...

... various amusements arranged for them by a committee appointed to superinted the day's proceedings. Cricket, foot-ball, trap, stool-ball, jumping in sacks, racing, climbing a greased pole, forty feet high, for a leg of mutton, and dancing on the green were ...

... it. A variety of amusements were then speedily engaged in. Cricket, football, racing, trap, skittles, jumping in sacks, stool-ball, climbing a pole, and dancing on the green, were going on joyously together, whilst many of the principal farmers of the ...