Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Healthful Sports for Boys
by
Alfred Rochefort
Marbles: Where and how made; different games; terms of game; how togain skill.
Whip tops, peg tops, and some other tops; how they are played; topgames.
About kites; how made; their practical uses; flying contests.
Hoops, wheels and buzzers; stilts, different kinds; how used and howprocured.
"Let's go a-fishing"; bait of many kinds and how to get it. Fishingoutfit; its care.
Useful hints on boating and canoeing. "Don'ts" to be observed.
Definitions.
How to make and manage small sail boats.
Can you swim? How to learn. Confidence.
Styles of swimming; floating, diving; water games.
How sides are chosen in games of contest; some things all boys shouldknow.
Curious rhymes in counting out games.
All about the good old game of tag, and bull in the ring.
Do you know all about leap frog?
Dead Turtle; Duck on Rock; Brick Skittles; Tip Cat; Country Cat;
American Cat.
And now for ball! Some good games that can be played with ball, batand racket. Town ball; two old cats; hand ball.
The great American game of baseball. Some things every player shouldknow. Rules.
The strenuous game of football. How to lay out the ground. Pointersfor players.
Mumbly peg; jackstones; Hop Scotch.
How and where to prepare camp. A delightful way in which to spend avacation, if you know the way.
Can you ride a bike? Information on wheels. How to throw a lari