Healthful Sports for Boys

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Healthful Sports for Boys

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Title: Healthful Sports for Boys
Author: Alfred Rochefort
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Healthful Sports for Boys
by
Alfred Rochefort

CONTENTS
SPRING

CHAPTER I
MARBLES--HOW PLAYED
Marbles: Where and how made; different games; terms of game; how to gain skill.

CHAPTER II
WHIP TOPS AND TOP GAMES
Whip tops, peg tops, and some other tops; how they are played; top games.

CHAPTER III
KITES AND HOW MADE
About kites; how made; their practical uses; flying contests.

CHAPTER IV
HOOPS, WHEELS AND BUZZERS
Hoops, wheels and buzzers; stilts, different kinds; how used and how procured.

CHAPTER V
LET'S GO A-FISHING
"Let's go a-fishing"; bait of many kinds and how to get it. Fishing outfit; its care.
SUMMER

CHAPTER VI
BOATING AND CANOEING
Useful hints on boating and canoeing. "Don'ts" to be observed. Definitions.

CHAPTER VII
SMALL SAIL BOATS
How to make and manage small sail boats.

CHAPTER VIII
HOW TO SWIM
Can you swim? How to learn. Confidence.

CHAPTER IX
STYLES OF SWIMMING
Styles of swimming; floating, diving; water games.

CHAPTER X
THINGS BOYS SHOULD KNOW
How sides are chosen in games of contest; some things all boys should know.

CHAPTER XI
CURIOUS RHYMES FOR GAMES
Curious rhymes in counting out games.

CHAPTER XII
TAG AND BULL IN THE RING
All about the good old game of tag, and bull in the ring.

CHAPTER XIII
ALL ABOUT LEAP FROG
Do you know all about leap frog?

CHAPTER XIV
DUCK ON THE ROCK--CAT
Dead Turtle; Duck on Rock; Brick Skittles; Tip Cat; Country Cat; American Cat.

CHAPTER XV
BALL, BAT AND RACKET
And now for ball! Some good games that can be played with ball, bat and racket. Town ball; two old cats; hand ball.

CHAPTER XVI
AMERICAN BASEBALL
The great American game of baseball. Some things every player should know. Rules.
AUTUMN

CHAPTER XVII
ALL ABOUT FOOTBALL
The strenuous game of football. How to lay out the ground. Pointers for players.

CHAPTER XVIII
MUMBLY PEG--HOP SCOTCH
Mumbly peg; jackstones; Hop Scotch.

CHAPTER XIX
HOW TO CAMP OUT
How and where to prepare camp. A delightful way in which to spend a vacation, if you know the way.

CHAPTER XX
BICYCLES AND LASSOES
Can you ride a bike? Information on wheels. How to throw a lariat.

CHAPTER XXI
GOLF, HOCKEY AND SHINNY
The old Scotch game of golf, hockey and shinny.
WINTER

CHAPTER XXII
SKATING--SKIING--SNOW SHOEING
On the ice and snow. The royal sport of skating. Some hints on skiing and snow shoes.

CHAPTER XXIII
COASTING--TOBOGGANING--SLEDS
Coasting. How to make sleds. The bob sled. The toboggan. Snow games.

CHAPTER XXIV
GENERAL ATHLETICS
Walking, Running, Jumping.

CHAPTER XXV
CRIES--SHOUTS--COLLEGE YELLS
Battle cries, hailing shouts, and college yells.

CHAPTER XXVI
CLEVER TRICKS
Vanishing feats. Curious illusions. Various deceptive amusements.

CHAPTER XXVII
SLEIGHT-OF-HAND
Balancing. Juggling. Transformations.

INTRODUCTION
Among the many good and wise things said by the great Lincoln was this: "Give me the boy with promise of the man in him, and give me the man with the memory of the boy in him, and both can sit at my table, and if they sit together, we'll have all the better time!"
This book of out-door games for boys will make better boys, and they'll get a lot more joy out of life and be the better men in time, for having read it and carried out its rules as to wholesome, honest sport.
The boy who plays an honest game will do an honest business, and he'll win over "the sneak."
If you are "a grown-up," read this book, and in doing so live over again the joyous, gladsome days of your boyhood, and you will sigh, as we do while writing this: "Would I were a boy again!"
We want the mother, as well as the father, to read this book, for it will recall the brothers of far-off days, and bring her into closer sympathy--we must not say "love," for that is already strong enough --with the exuberance of her boys.
And the girls? Why, bless you! They, too, should read every scrap of this book, for they will find in it many of their own games, and not one that they could not play and enjoy, if