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... thtus there were3 bride-ales, clerk-ales, give-ales, lamb-ales, Icet-ales, Mlidstim- moe-ales, Scot-ales, and several more. Stool-ball andi barley- break were, also, Whitsun sports: in 11ancient tymes, too, Whitsun plays were acted: at Chester, thley were ...
... of stool bell, ?? cat closely resembled eaun other, and may be consicered to be ?? same game, slig~stly variad in formn Stool-bal, which wa generally played by yeung wcmen in tbe country, is gone out; the others are still extaut. Cat is the ?? street ...
... Early forms of cricket in some of the old English t games known by such names as club ball, handyn and I handouts, stool-ball and Cat and Dog, and in these he thinks there is suffioient proof that cricket existed long before the Revolution, although ...
... were such), as club- ball and stool-ball and handyn and handoute down to the doings of the Parsee eleven and the Maori players. Whatever creag, men- tioned in the Wardrobe Account of 28th Edward I., may have been, stool-ball was women's cricket, and ...
... course lost in obscurity. ' Asl a fzar as wve can ascertain, says the writer of this paper,| >; ricktwasevolved out of stool-ball and tip-ret; froma the former we have the custom of* bowling the ball to theE |striker, from the latter we borrow that part ...
... ihe ArAt Journal. CRICKET AND ITS FoR eNERS.-Now, as fat as we can ascertain, cricket seems to have bsou evolves olt of stool-ball, aud tip-cat, or, as it was catied, c5 and dog. From stool-hall wlas borrowed the prisnitlv wicket-a stool, or cricket-wbich ...
... hand, if I could believe that I had a son that would ever do as much for me. Those I have are good for naught but golf and stool-ball. Wherein by his hasty words be did his honest, silly lads much wrong. CHAPTER XVI. GREYBEARDs AND DIMPLE CHINS ONE Sabbath ...
... to cecido Mr. Hutchinson starts a specula- tiot -o the effect that but for gutta-percha ir.f.ight be as dead a game as stool-ball no knurr-and-spell. The game has how- ever, established itself in England with every -cnis' of remaining-; and the fact ...