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A ring can be made without lifting your skates from the ice

A ring can be made without lifting your skates from the ice. This is
called a spread-eagle circle, and it is cut by spreading the feet. The
skater must learn to keep his feet moving, first the right foot
forward and the left foot back, then the left foot forward and right
foot back, always with toes turned out spread-eagle fashion. When
properly done, this motion will cause the skater to glide around in a
circle, his feet moving in a most bewildering manner, while they weave
a pretty grape-vine pattern on the ice.

The first hard fight I ever had was with a big boy–it is the conflict

I look back at with the most pleasure–who was holding a smaller boy
under the water
The first hard fight I ever had was with a big boy–it is the conflict
I look back at with the most pleasure–who was holding a smaller boy
under the water. We fought quite naked, and–well, I licked the bully,
and never after that did he try to frighten small boys in that
swimming hole.

is nearly as good as the cricket, and it is easily captured and kept

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It is said the children in Holland learn to skate as soon as they

leave the cradle
It is said the children in Holland learn to skate as soon as they
leave the cradle. Certainly the young South Sea Islanders learn to
swim at an equally early age.

During a good deal of world-travelling I cannot recall ever having

seen a game of Mumbly Peg played outside of the United States and
Canada
During a good deal of world-travelling I cannot recall ever having
seen a game of Mumbly Peg played outside of the United States and
Canada. I have placed it among the autumn games, but we all know that,
except in winter when the conditions are unfavorable, it can be played
at any time, where two boys and a jackknife can be assembled, with
reasonably soft, smooth ground on which to play.

Being thoroughly master of this first lesson, you may proceed to the

study of the various ‘passes
Being thoroughly master of this first lesson, you may proceed to the
study of the various ‘passes.’ All of the passes have the same object
–viz., the apparent transfer of an article from one hand to the other,
though such article really remains in the hand which it has apparently
just quitted. As the same movement frequently repeated would cause
suspicion, and possibly detection, it is desirable to acquire
different ways of effecting this object. It should be here mentioned
that the term ‘palming’ which we have so far used as meaning simply
the act of holding any article, is also employed to signify the act of
placing any article in the palm by one or the other of various passes.
The context will readily indicate in which of the two senses the term
is used in any given passage.

Soap suds or luke-warm water, if poured over a place where there are

worms, will bring them to the surface
Soap suds or luke-warm water, if poured over a place where there are
worms, will bring them to the surface. If at the same time you pound
on the ground, it is said their egress will be hastened.

Now that our President and other great men have taken to golf,

everybody reads about the popular game, but very few know anything
about it but the name
Now that our President and other great men have taken to golf,
everybody reads about the popular game, but very few know anything
about it but the name. To such, the following facts may be of use. The
game is interesting, and its rules can be soon learned, but like
everything else we do for pleasure or profit, it takes a good deal of
practice before one can pose as an expert. Boys take to golf and soon
excel their seniors.

We have reason to believe that the first marbles were fashioned from

pebbles on the ocean”s shore, or ground into roundness by the action
of river currents
We have reason to believe that the first marbles were fashioned from
pebbles on the ocean”s shore, or ground into roundness by the action
of river currents. We do not know when or where marbles originated,
but of the antiquity of the game we are very sure. Egyptian boys
played marbles before the days of Moses, and marbles are among the
treasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii, which you will
remember was destroyed by an eruption of lava from Vesuvius in the
first century of the Christian era. To-day marbles are played in every
civilized land under the sun, and with slight differences, the method
of shooting and the games are practically the same.

This done, the captains display their skill by stationing their men in

such a way that they may guard their respective goals if their
opponents are driving that way
This done, the captains display their skill by stationing their men in
such a way that they may guard their respective goals if their
opponents are driving that way.