... were about to witness, under the heading of Stool-ball, an old Sussex game, similar in many respects to cricket, played by females. It has lately been revived in East Sussex by the establishment of stool-ball clubs in many villages. The game, he adds ...

... divided in opinion as to whether cricket came from cricket a stool or crice a staff; the first being the object aimed at in stool-ball, the second the instrument used in hitting the ball. Stool- ball was a girl's game, and so Mr. Lang may be said to have ...

... p the. leave the least impression en the mind,' Bishop 8 to ?? instances archery, leaping, pitching as] lostile bar, and stool-ball (a, rudimentary form of lb, inscricket), as suitable reereatiotto. He would, In !seer doubtless, have included bicycling ...

... described, of course. )b an older than Herodotus, by Homer, in bit Sixth Book of the Odyssey. Chapman de- scribes the garme as stool-ball, and introduten the terminology of that pastime, just U be makes the waves play at herrid teninis Sit Odysseus. In fact ...

... 1 J from cricket a stool or crice a staff ; the first being He the object aimed at in stool-ball, the second the in- A strument used in hitting the ball. Stool-ball was ha r girl's game, so Mr Lang may be said to have put in Mi an etymological plea for ...

... it' ?? ?? C i' i auht just V cia4~usia a ki4g strokc. ai Cua. ?? a calls it in his desoription of NAUSICAA playing at stoolball. The game needs more dash, more lhazarld, less gloomy deliberateness, It is a game after all, not a form of ascetic molanoholy ...