... the junior portion was indulged in until dusk. The infants having been sent home earlier, being first regaled with a bun. stoolball (an ancient game for ladies, and played now in some parts of England) was played by the ladies, causing much fun and amusement ...

... in the British School-yard. After tea they adjourned to the field, where variety of games were indulged in such cricket, stoolball. football, &c., until eight o'clock, when they went to the School-yard, where they partook of refreshments, after which they ...

... ’ by Andrew Lnng..vlnch. is & good hinnq in brief of the smo. Speaking of its antiquity he imagines Homer have known ** stool-ball,”” from which amusement cricket derived its origin. Another forerunner was the still popular game of ‘““tip cat.” Onme of ...

... prizes the popular being cakes the special called which of bitter Jewish Passover ” to this : Young very brisk At b irlev Stool-ball frisk Various old quaint devices 16th “lifting” “heaving Easter men lifted on latter compliment A curious record in certain ...

... to send their money. The prevailing amusements taken part in by the visitors the church-ales were dancing on the green, stool-ball, barley-break, rounders, hunting the fat lamb, foot-races, etc. The old ceremony, the Boy's Bailiff, prevailed ia Whitsun ...