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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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k-ing down upon a very different scene in far-offJapan. Two native girls in their quaint costumeswere taking a promenade near a Japanese town.In the distance loomed up the snow-clad cone ofFusiyama, the sacred mountain. The girls drew 3S» 352 SPORTS AND TOYS IN HISTORY near a low house with wide verandas, which hada lawn in front; and on the lawn were similarwhite squares, and just such a net as SpottedCrow and his sons had marveled at a few hoursbefore, as they peered through the tree-tops ofthe American mountains, six thousand milesaway. The two Japanese girls stopped and lookedover the hedge. Some young English folk were did not see tennis nets and hear those familiarcries. He knew that the racket and the net werealways in use somewhere; that the empire oflawn tennis circled the earth quite as completelyas does the boasted roll of British drums. Ages ago the sun had seen the beginnings ofthis game. It is not quite certain whether it wason the banks of the Nile or the Ganges, or at
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A TENNIS COURT OF THE MIDDLE AGES. knocking balls to and fro over the net, and cryingout, fifteen! forty! deuce all! game! andthe rest, just as their American cousins had doneon the other side of the wide Pacific. But the sun was well used to this sort of thing.There was never a continent that he looked downupon as the round earth daily turned its differenthemispheres upward for his inspection, where he Nineveh;group of but somewhere this same sun saw ahalf-naked, bronze-limbed youngsters throwing balls or dried gourds back and forth,using their hands for bats, and doubtless havingquite as much fun, after a barbarous fashion, aswe have nowadays with cork-handled rackets,regulation balls, and a set of printed rules. Generations rolled by, however, before the pio- SPORTS AND TOYS IN HISTORY 353 neers of tennis had themselves carved on stoneslabs, and still other ages before Gordian III. andMarcus Aurelius Antoninus had coins struck, inhonor of the Pythian Apollo, bearing deviceswhich re

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