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Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, Taken from Original Sources

Note 401 — Chapter XXIV · SWORD-PLAY AND OTHER SPORTS. GARDEN, ETC.

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'In Winter Foot-balls is a useful and charming Exercise. It is a Leather Ball about as big as ones Head, fill'd with Wind: This is kick'd about from one to t'other in the Streets, by him that can get at it, and this is all the Art of it.'[401]

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