Book/Printed Material Popular pastimes for field and fireside;
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- Date: 1867
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Image 2 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside;- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
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Image 3 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside;- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
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Image 4 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside;- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
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Image 5 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside;- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
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Image 6 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside;- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
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Image 7 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; Popular Pastimes Field and Fireside OR Amusements for Young and Old Ass AV SVE Cc CAREFULLY COMPILED BY AUNT CARRIE oS etary of Cong Con es SS é of Washing SPRINGFIELD MASS…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 8 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY In the Ogee Office of the District Court of the District of Mas sachusetts SAMUEL BOWLES AND COMPANY…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 9 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; AUNT CARRIE DEDICATES TO HER YOUNG FRIENDS B Boars 300K IN THE HOPE THAT IT WILL ADD TO THEIR HOME PLEASURES- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 10 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside;- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 11 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; Preface 5 WOULD like to make a few suggestions on yO t home influence before I commence a list of Hj amusements They may be superfluous if so I trust you will…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 12 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; yl PREFACE revered and are gratified if your children are attentive to your comforts Can you expect such manifestations unless you set them an example and prove by a real interest in…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 13 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; Contents PAGE PREFACE F 5 Bs 5 5 3 é we 8 CROQUET MaTERIALS used in the GamePreparation of the Ground Choice of SidesGeneral Principles of the GameArrange ment of the BridgesDiagramsRules…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 14 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; Vill CONTENTS GARDENING AND FLOWERS PAGE Benefit of Childrens GardensThe WoodsHow to Plant SeedsFerneriesIviesPressed FlowersHow to Plant and Grow StrawberriesGrapesDesigns for FlowersTo Produce various Flowers from one stemTo Preserve Roses till Winter…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 15 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; j 4 Pop goes the Weasel Lancers Le Prince Imperial Guadane Common Cotillion Basket Dance White Cockade The Waltz and Polka uadville Sir Roger De Coverly or Virginia Reel NinePin Dance ee…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 16 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; x CONTENTS The Menagerie 5 Quaker Meeting Resemblances BAe NES Put in a Word Proverbs Game of Characters Lawyer Consequences Fox and Geese StageCoach Hunt the Fox Sneezing The Ready Writer Rhyming…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 17 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; CONTENTS PARLOR GAMES Squails Parlor or Carpet Bois 5 The Union Game or Red White and ine Zoetrope or Wheel of Life Grecian Games JackStraws GAMES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN Dance Thumbkin Dance…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 18 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside;- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 19 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; erog wet Z ROQUET has been for several years one of the most popular pastimes in England and is now very justly receiving a large and rapidly increasing share of attention f…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 20 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 14 CROQUET And it may perhaps be considered as the chief excellence of this game that it gives this opportunity which very few other games combining scientific play and physical exercise afford…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 21 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; MATERIALS OF THE GAME mS 9 the effects of the weather and for this purpose nothing is better than good oil paint and varnish There is a universal predisposition towards large balls…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 22 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 16 CROQUET The bridges should be made of iron wire about g of an inch in es in form like an oxbow The width of the bridge should be equal to the…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 23 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; THE GROUND 17 will occupy 10 inches and hence allow the posts to be driven into the ground 8 inches and still have the lowest color so high from the turf that…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 24 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 18 CROQUET distance between the bridges is governed very much by the taste and accommodation of the owner A model Croquet ground has been defined as an elliptical field one hundred feet…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 25 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; oe GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE GAME 19 tween the chiefs by each placing his ball under the first bridge and striking for the starting post the one who thus drives his ball…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 26 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 20 CROQUET bridges are arranged in cither of the three positions given in diagrams Nos 1 2 and 3 we now come to the mode of play ing the game The object…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 27 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; ROQUETCROQUET 21 When one ball driven by a blow of the mallet hits another it is said to make Roquet on that ball When the first player who should be black has…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 28 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 22 CROQUET the use of this very valuable stroke The player who reaches the turningpost first has great advantages for a time for as soon as he touches it he commences his…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 29 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; ARRANGEMENT OF BRIDGESDIAGRAM 23 The figures marked on this diagram are intended merely to furnish a relative scale of distances Thus with these distances the posts are 53 feet apart which is…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 30 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 24 CROQUET rarely be accomplishednever except by extraordinarily skillful playyet it should DIAGRAM No 2 be made possible but very NEAD difficult ae i Soe ees e tHagram fo 2 x In…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 31 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; ARRANGEMENT OF BRIDGESDIAGRAM 25 tHagram io 3 Tn this the third diagram it will te seen that the two cen ter side bridges are done away with and that one is placed…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 32 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 26 CROQUET RULES OF THE GAME striking the Ball I Ar the commencement of the game the ball should be placed on a line drawn from the starting post to the center…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 33 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; RULES OF THE GAME rats his own choice thus according to this rule the chief is not compelled to play the first ball We do not advise this prac tice as there…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 34 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 28 CROQUET Running a Bridge Til A player continues to play so long as he makes a point in the game 1 Making a point is running one or more bridges strik…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 35 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; RULES OF THE GAME 29 bridge if it has been so placed by the hand for the purpose of croquet or roquetcroquet no matter from what position it may haye been taken…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 36 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 30 CROQUET The Rover VIL If the roquetcroquet is allowed to all players alike the rover is governed entirely by the same laws as other players 1 Therefore a rover hayig completed…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 37 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; RULES OF THE GAME 81 lege of croquet and afterwards at the same blow run a bridge it may croquet the roqueted ball then proceed to ro quet it again then croquet…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 38 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; Se bo CROQUET Phe Croquet and RogtuetCroqnuet TX A player may croquet or roquetcroquet any number of balls consecutively but he can croquet or roquetcroquet only those balls on which he has…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 39 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; RULES OF THE GAME 383 4 In making ricochet the player is at liberty to croquet either a part or all of the balls roqueted but the order of croquet must be…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
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Image 40 of Popular pastimes for field and fireside; 34 CROQUET tour and no point made by a flinching ball is valid and the balls are considered as accidentally displaced and are replaced in accordance with the rule applying to accidentally…- Contributor: Smith, Caroline L.
- Date: 1867
About this Item
Title
- Popular pastimes for field and fireside;
Names
- Smith, Caroline L.
Created / Published
- Springfield (Mass.) M. Bradley & co., 1867.
Headings
- - Amusements
- - Games
- - Handicraft
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 1 p.l., xi, [13]-248 p. illus. 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- GV1201 .S64
Library of Congress Control Number
- 05035036
Online Format
- online text
- image