How to Amuse Yourself and Others: The American Girl's Handy BookC. Scribner's Sons, 1887 - 474 sider These descriptions of leisure-time activities for Victorian girls were designed to cultivate their curiosity and inventiveness, and to help them gain self-confidence regarding their competence and talents. |
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Side 5 - These sayings are true at all times, and equally true that " a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Side 4 - Jerusalem, the mother of our new birth, is in all lands at once, fully and entirely, as a spirit ; in the East and in the West, in the North and in the South : that is, wherever her outward instruments are to be found.
Side 63 - The choice of sides, and the right to serve in the first game, shall be decided by toss; provided that, if the winner of the toss choose the right to serve, the other player shall have...
Side 42 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.
Side 66 - The striker-out wins a stroke if the server serve two consecutive faults ; or if he fail to return the ball in play ; or if he return the ball in play so that it drops outside of his opponent's court ; or if he otherwise lose a stroke as provided bylaw 1 8.
Side 68 - At the beginning of the next set, either partner of the pair which struck out in the last game of the last set may serve, and the same privilege is given to their opponents in the second game of the new set.
Side 67 - ... for the second game. The partner of the player who served in the first game shall serve in the third, and the partner of the player who served in the second game shall serve in the fourth, and the same order shall be maintained in all the subsequent games of the set.
Side 396 - In the midst of this delightful little aquatic group, we three sat in our little skin-bound tub (like the " three wise men of Gotham, who went to sea in a bowl...
Side 65 - Law 7, or if the ball served, drop in the net or beyond the Service- Line, or if it drop out of Court, or in the wrong Court.
Side 69 - Half-court: the players having agreed into which court the giver of the odds shall play, the latter loses a stroke if the ball, returned by him, drop outside any of the lines which bound that court.