... antiphone. All then retired for refresh- ment. The feasting customs of this game are thus commemorated by an old writer :— At stool-ball, Lucia, let us play, For sugar, cakes, or winn Or for a tansey let us pay, Tho loss be mme or thine. It thou, my dear, a ...

... amusements of succeeding centuries. Hand-ball was popular with both sexes; tennis and fives were a fashion; and balloon-bail, stool-ball, foot-ball, camp-ball, hurling, golf, cambuc, bandy-ball, stow-ball, pall- mall, ring-ball, club-ball, cricket, trap-ball ...