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

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