... very prophane town,” where stoolball, cricketts,” and other games were practised on the Lord’s Day. Thus, at that early date, distinction was already taken, even by Puritan who was no sportsman, between cricket and stoolball. Then hear, I really don’t ...

... seems to been evolved out of stool-ball, and tip-cot, or jis it was called, *• cat and dog.” From stool-ball was borrowed the primitive wicket —a stool, cricket which (perhaps) gave its name to the pastime. From stool-ball, too, have the custom tossing ...

... football, and the maids, with whom we children commonly mixed, being not proof for the turbulence of the other party,to stoolball and such running games as they knew. And all this without mixing men and women, in dancing with fiddle, but apart.— Th( A ...

... residence in Gloucestershire. Mb. Hackwood. of Matlock Bath, says that has bad nearly a thousand requests for the rules of “stool-ball.” the ancient game which. It would seem, he desires to revive. The fact significant of the interest English people take ...