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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