The Boy's Modern Playmate: A Book of Sports, Games, and PastimesJohn George Wood Frederick Warne and Company, 1891 - 816 sider |
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Side 459
... bait , the tile loses its support , and of course falls , the bird being made prisoner . Care must be taken in re- moving the bird from the trap , or , the moment you raise the tile , he will escape . The peg , trigger , and straight ...
... bait , the tile loses its support , and of course falls , the bird being made prisoner . Care must be taken in re- moving the bird from the trap , or , the moment you raise the tile , he will escape . The peg , trigger , and straight ...
Side 462
... Bait should , of course , be placed in the centre of the noose . Immense numbers of larks are caught in horse - hair nooses , which are set in the following manner : Having found a place on the snow frequented by these birds , take ...
... Bait should , of course , be placed in the centre of the noose . Immense numbers of larks are caught in horse - hair nooses , which are set in the following manner : Having found a place on the snow frequented by these birds , take ...
Side 465
... bait ; though it is as well , perhaps , to rub the floor of the trap with the entrails of a rabbit , which are an especial attraction to stoats , weasels , & c . " No. II . - This will be found to be a most excellent trap . It should be ...
... bait ; though it is as well , perhaps , to rub the floor of the trap with the entrails of a rabbit , which are an especial attraction to stoats , weasels , & c . " No. II . - This will be found to be a most excellent trap . It should be ...
Side 466
... bait should be tied on to the end of Fig . 1 , but you must be careful not to bait with anything very hard , such as the head of a young rabbit , or it will keep the slate from hurting any weasel that lets it off . " With the ordinary ...
... bait should be tied on to the end of Fig . 1 , but you must be careful not to bait with anything very hard , such as the head of a young rabbit , or it will keep the slate from hurting any weasel that lets it off . " With the ordinary ...
Side 473
... BAIT KETTLE ( Fig . 18 ) should be of tin , and fitted with straps to go over the shoulder . It should have a second lid , and a small FIG . 18 . hand - net should be used to take out the bait , as nothing is so injurious to them as ...
... BAIT KETTLE ( Fig . 18 ) should be of tin , and fitted with straps to go over the shoulder . It should have a second lid , and a small FIG . 18 . hand - net should be used to take out the bait , as nothing is so injurious to them as ...
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Side 625 - These simple machines are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw.
Side 61 - ... the right and left courts. On each side of the net, at a distance of 21 feet from it, and parallel with it, are drawn the service lines.
Side 766 - Italian player oi some eminence. Walker says this may be classed as the most brilliant and critical opening known, and recommends the student to play it at every opportunity ; he also throws out the warning that an incorrect move may irrecoverably lose the game. The defence is most difficult to discover in actual play.
Side 48 - In all match games, lines connecting the liome and first bases, and the home and third bases, and also the lines of the striker's and pitcher's positions, shall be marked by the use of chalk or other suitable material, so as to be distinctly seen by the umpire. The...
Side 765 - WHITE. BLACK. 1. P. tO K. 4. i. P. tO K. 4. 2. P. to KB 4. 2. P. takes P. 3. K. Kt. to B. 3- 3- P. to K. Kt. 4. 4. KB to QB 4. 4. K. Kt. P. advances.
Side 7 - When there shall be more than four players on a side, there shall be no bounds. All hits, byes, and overthrows shall then be allowed.
Side 650 - I can take it into another room and there fire spirits of wine with it. If while it is electrifying I put my finger, or a piece of gold which I hold in my hand, to the nail, I receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders.
Side 66 - ... decide similarly for the second game. The partner of the player who served in the first game shall serve in the third; the partner of the player who served in the second game shall serve in the fourth, and so on in the same order in all the subsequent games of a set.
Side 5 - Or, if with any part of his person he stop the ball, which, in the opinion of the umpire at the bowler's wicket, shall have been pitched in a straight line from it to the striker's wicket, and would have hit it.