... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...