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Healthful Sports for Boys

by A. R. Calhoun

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Each season has its own particular work for the farmer, and he does his work without direction from or consultation with his neighbors or any one else. Each season has its own particular games for the young folks, and they take to them without any suggestion from outsiders, just as young ducks take to water, without any instructions from the mother bird. The seasons in the south temperate zone are just the opposite to those in the north. Some years ago I spent the months of July and August in New Zealand, and great was my surprise to find the boys down at Dunedin snowballing on the Fourth of July, while the sleigh-bells made music through the streets. In the following October, which is the spring month in Victoria, Australia, I found the youngsters of Melbourne playing marbles, just as the boys in New York had been doing when I left it the previous May.

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CONTENTS

SPRING
CHAPTER I
MARBLES—HOW PLAYED

Marbles: Where and how made; different games; terms of game; how to gain skill.

CHAPTER II
WHIP TOPS AND TOP GAMES

Whip tops, peg tops, and some other tops; how they are played; top games.

CHAPTER III
KITES AND HOW MADE

About kites; how made; their practical uses; flying contests.

CHAPTER IV
HOOPS, WHEELS AND BUZZERS

Hoops, wheels and buzzers; stilts, different kinds; how used and how procured.

CHAPTER V
LET'S GO A-FISHING

"Let's go a-fishing"; bait of many kinds and how to get it. Fishing outfit; its care.

SUMMER

CHAPTER VI
BOATING AND CANOEING

Useful hints on boating and canoeing. "Don'ts" to be observed. Definitions.

CHAPTER VII
SMALL SAIL BOATS

How to make and manage small sail boats.

CHAPTER VIII

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