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Algonquins antagonists arms attempt ball is thrown bend better block body bring butt Canada captain carried dodge carrying the ball catch Caughnawaga centre surface chance Charlevoix checker Choctaws collar Cover-point cricket cricket ball curve curved ball distance dodger face feats feet field games fielders flag-poles flags frisking front game director game of Lacrosse give goal-crease goal-keeper grasp ground grounders guard hand hard head Home inches Indian Iroquois keep keeper latter leaping legs let the ball lower angle match Montreal Club netting never Ojibways old Montreal opponent original game Ottawa pale-face perfection pick pole Pontiac position practice present principle quick rear red-skin Regis Indians right to left rough play rule shinty side side strokes sometimes sport stop straight strike successful sweep swift balls swift shots swiping throwers throwing to goal tribes twelve twist umpires upwards wrist
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Page 26 - These long-protracted ceremonials and preparations being over, one of the chiefs, having advanced to the centre of the area, cast the ball high in the air. As it fell, between twenty and thirty of the players rushed forward, and, leaping several feet off the ground, tried to strike it. The multiplicity of blows, acting in different directions, had the effect of bringing the ball to the ground, where a fine scramble took place, and a glorious clatter of sticks mingled with the cries of the savages....
Page 42 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 44 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say ' To-morrow is saint Crispian :' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Page 255 - GAME. 16. Should the ball be accidentally put through a goal by one of the players defending it, it is game for the side attacking that goal. Should it be put through a goal by any one not actually a player, it shall not count for or against either side.
Page 63 - Us was lowered from the flagstaff, and the cross of St. George rose aloft in its place, while seven hundred Indian warriors, lately the active allies of France, greeted the sight with a burst of triumphant yells. The Canadian militia were next called together and disarmed. The Indians looked on with amazement at their obsequious behavior, quite at a loss to understand why so many men should humble themselves before so few. Nothing...
Page 58 - PROCLAMATION For Uniting the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into one Dominion, under the name of CANADA.
Page 24 - In these struggles, every mode is used that can be devised, to oppose the progress of the foremost, who is likely to get the ball ; and these obstructions often meet desperate individual resistance, which terminates in a violent scuffle, and sometimes in fisticuffs; when their sticks are dropped, and the parties are unmolested, whilst they are settling it between themselves; unless it...
Page 251 - A leading string resting upon the top of the stick may be used, but must not be fastened, so as to form a pocket, lower down the stick than the end of the length strings.
Page 27 - ... the trees, with thirty or forty swift-footed fellows stretching after or athwart him, with their fantastic tigers' tails streaming behind them ; and he, in like manner, at full speed, holding his sticks as high over his head as possible, sometimes ducking to avoid a blow, or leaping to escape a trip, sometimes doubling like a hare, and sometimes tumbling at full length, or breaking his shins on a fallen tree, but seldom losing hold of his treasure without a severe struggle. It really seemed as...
Page 24 - ... to which they are subject who are down, if the ball happens to pass in their direction. Every weapon, by a rule of all ball-plays, is laid by in their respective encampments, and no man allowed to go for one; so that the sudden broils that take place on the ground, are presumed to be as suddenly settled without any probability of much personal injury; and no one is allowed to interfere...