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Flags are all struck on either side by being shot away, or when the men
are all taken prisoners or slain, or when the ramparts are demolished,
the victors may sing, "Old Rose and burn the Bellows." BANDY BALL OR
GOLF. This game is played with a bat and a small ball; and the game
consists in driving the ball into certain holes made in the ground.
Sometimes these holes from first to last, are at the distance of half a
mile or even more from each other. There are many intervening holes.
Those who drive the ball into the greatest number of holes, of course
win the game; but the ball must never be driven beyond a hole without
first going into it. If the ball passes in the way beyond a hole, the
player is out. FOOT BALL. Foot Ball is a very simple game. A large soft
ball is procured (which is now made of Gutta Percha), and the players
having assembled and taken sides, a line is drawn across the playground,
and the play commences. The object of the play is, for each party to
kick the ball across the goal of the other, and to prevent it from
passing their own. The party into whose bounds the ball is kicked, loses
the game. TRUSSING. This is an excellent game. In some places it is
called "Cock Fighting." To play it, two players must be matched against
each other, and one is sometimes called "Black Cock," and the other
"White Cock." They are seated on a carpet, or, what is better, the floor
of the play-room, and undergo the operation of "trussing." This is
performed as follows:--The hands are first tied with a handkerchief at
the wrists. The ancles are tied in the same manner. The Cock then has
his hands brought to his instep, while his knees pass between his arms,
and a short stick is thrust in under the knees and over the joints of
the elbow, and secured in