By Daniel "Dan" Carter Beard
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SPRING
CHAPTER I.
Marble Time;
History of the Game; Sakya-Muni and Humphrey Potter;
Marble
Names; Marble
Terms; and Expressions;
Games
from Bull Ring to Long Ring.
CHAPTER II.
The Uncertainties of "Fat,"
Sometimes Called "Yank " or "Yankey;"
Stand-Up
Marbles;
Follerings;
Knucks;
the Long
Ring; and
Patterson; The Scientific
Bull
Ring;
Duck in a Hole.
CHAPTER III.
Home-made
Tops; Plug in the
Ring; Chip
Stone;
Shovels and Whips;
How to Spin.
CHAPTER IV.
For Practical Uses; Steering Kites; Life Savers; Men Lifters and Other Novel
Forms; Kites as Motive Power; The Malay Variety.
CHAPTER V.
Some Famous Experiments; How the Malays and Other Oriental Kites are Made;
Kites in Tandem; Cannibal and Chinese Butterfly Kites.
CHAPTER VI.
Paper Dragons or Fish for Kite Strings; A Live Man Kite.
CHAPTER VII.
The Old and the New Fangled Hoops; How to Trundle a Wheel; Sport with Tin-Can
Covers.
CHAPTER VIII.
HOW TO MAKE THE SUCKER
Leather Suckers
and Live Suckers; Turtle-Fishing with Suckers.
CHAPTER IX.
How to Make all Kinds; Stilt-Walking Shepherds; Hand or Arm-Stilts are Best
for Beginners; Queer Stilts Used in Various Countries.
CHAPTER X.
Salt-Water Worms that Live on Land; Angle-Worms, Hellgramites, Minnows,
Crawfish, Grasshoppers, Crickets, Frogs, and "Lampers:" How to Catch and How to
Keep Them.
CHAPTER XI.
Why and How Fish are Easily Frightened; The Lessons of Nature and of
Experience.
CHAPTER XII.
AQUATIC SPORTS
Rowing Clothes; How to Make a Bathing-Suit; How to Avoid Sunburn; Points
about Canoeing.
CHAPTER XIII.
Common Nautical Terms and Expression's Defined; How to Sail a Boat; Boat
Rigs.
CHAPTER XIV.
How to Distinguish Between a Ship, Bark, Brig, and Schooner; Merits and
Defects of Cat-Boats; Advantages of the Sloop; Rigs for Canoes; Buckeyes and
Sharpies.
CHAPTER XV.
Just What an Ingenious Boy Must Do to Build It; Detailed Instructions as to
How to Make the Boat and How to Rig It.
CHAPTER XVI.
A
RAFT THAT WILL SAIL
And a Home-Made
Catamaran; The Raft is Just the Thing for Camp Life; Pleasurable Occupation
for a Camping Party Where Wood is Plentiful; You Will Need Axes and Hatchets and
a Few Other Civilized Implements.
CHAPTER XVII.
How Old Shells can be Turned into Boy's Boats; The Cause of Upsets; Landing
from and Embarking in a Shell; What an Umbrella Canoe is and How It is Made.
CHAPTER XVIII.
How to Capture and Preserve Moths and Butterflies; A New Cabinet.
CHAPTER XIX.
How to Send a Cipher Message by the Bee Line; The Key; Bee Stings and How to
Avoid Them.
CHAPTER XX.
A "ZOO"
For the Housetop or the Backyard; How to Build a Coop for Animals on the Roof
or in the Yard; The Way to Provide Homes for Various Kinds of Pets.
CHAPTER XXI.
"Which Hand is It in?;" "Pick'er Up, Wipe'er Off; and Stone Holder;" "Last
One Over;" Short Straw; Handy, Dandy; Riderly Ro; "Whole Fist or Four Fingers;"
"Odd or Even?" " Wet or Dry?"
CHAPTER XXII.
How the Game is Played; Various Rhymes; An American Version of an Ancient
Rhyme; Causes of Variations; Rhymes of Different Nationalities.
CHAPTER XXIII.
How to Swim; A Wooden "Swimming Master;" Suspension Bridge; Chump's Raft; and
Tub Races.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Origin of this Sport; King's X; Last Tag; Iron Tag; Cross Tag; Old Bloody
Tom; Black Man; Prisoner's Base; and Other Variations.
CHAPTER XXV.
With Instructions also How to Play Hunkety and Kick the Wicket.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Teaching the Game to the Esquimaux; Foot-an'-Half; With First Back and a
Leader; A Game Requiring Skill; Spanish Fly; The Danger of Quarrelling; Dick's
Hat-Band.
CHAPTER XXVII.
VARIOUS SPORTS FOR HOT DAYS
"Jack's
Alive!;"
Spirit
Tortoise and Dead Turtles;
Jack and the
Candles; Bowlder On, or
Duck on a Rock;
Nine and Ten Pins;
Skittles, Ancient and Modem.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
How the Cat is Made; English-Cat; Country-Cat; American-Cat; A Game Requiring
Skill and Quickness.
CHAPTER XXIX.
How Town-Ball is Played; One or Two Old-Cat; House-Ball; Hand Up; Ballie
Callie; Crackabout; Over the Barn; Stool-Ball; Corner-Ball; [Rolly Poly];
Hat-Ball.
CHAPTER XXX.
MUMBLY PEG, HOP-SCOTCH, AND JACK STONES
The Motions
of Stick-Knife; Universality of the Game of
Hop-Scotch;
As Played in Different Countries; Different Games with
Jack Stones.
CHAPTER XXXI.
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR BICYCLISTS
Regarding Baggage and how to Carry It; A Photographer's outfit on a Wheel; A
Collector's Box; How to Deal with Punctures; An Extemporized Handle Bar; A Rope
Tire; A Cleaning Rack, and a Bicycle Stand.
CHAPTER XXXII.
POINTS ON CAMPING OUT
How to Make
a Fire in the Woods on a Rainy Day; To Get a Light Without Matches; The
Diamond
Hitch, and a Home-made Cinch.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE BOYS' BABY BALLISTA
How to Build
this Warlike Engine, and the Fun that can be had With It;
Blow-guns and
Their Use;
Blow-gun Parachutes; The
Lariat, How to Make
and Throw It.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Origin of "Hello" and "Tally-ho;" Indian War-whoops and College Yells;
Boys' Cries.
CHAPTER XXXV.
Squaw; Saddle-bags, or Sky Shinny: The Way the Game is Played; An
Exhilarating Sport, Mandan Ring, A Fine Game for Autumn or Winter.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
ON THE FOOT-BALL FIELD
The Antiquity of the Game; The General Principles of the Game as It is Played
by the College Teams at Present.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
GOLF, HOCKEY, AND SHINNY
How to Lay Out Golf Links and Play the Game; Explanation of the Terms Used in
the Game; How Hockey and Shinny are Played.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
TURTLE HUNTING
Methods of Capturing "Snappers" and Terrapin Described; The Implements
Necessary and Where to Search.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Plain and Fancy Skating; Begin to Learn Young; Cutting a Circle; The Spread
Eagle; The Bull Frog; The Grapevine Garland; The Danger of "Follow the Leader."
CHAPTER XL.
STUNNING MUSK-RATS AND FISH
Sport for Boys on Skates When the Ice is Thin and Clear; How Catfish and "
Suckers " are Stunned and Captured.
CHAPTER XLI
SNOW-BALL BATTLE AND SNOW TAG
The
Rules
of Snow-Ball Battle; How
Rome and Carthage is Played in Cuba; The Ingenious Game of
Snow
Tag.
CHAPTER XLII.
Instructions as to How to Build these Famous Sleds; A Safety Double-Runner.
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