Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements

by Unknown

No.	Colour.	from	to
1.	B.	11	15
2.	W.	22	18
3.	B.	15	22
4.	W.	25	18
5.	B.	8	11
6.	W.	29	25
7.	B.	4	8
8.	W.	25	22
9.	B.	12	16
10.	W.	24	20
11.	B.	10	15
12.	W.	27	24
13.	B.	16	19
14.	W.	23	16
15.	B.	15	19
16.	W.	24	15
17.	B.	9	14
18.	W.	18	9
19.	B.	11	25
20.	W.	32	27
21.	B.	5	14
22.	W.	27	23
23.	B.	6	10
24.	W.	16	12
25.	B.	8	11
26.	W.	28	24
27.	B.	25	29
28.	W.	30	25
29.	B.	29	22
30.	W.	26	17
31.	B.	11	15
32.	W.	20	16
33.	B.	15	18
34.	W.	24	20
35.	B.	18	27
36.	W.	31	24
37.	B.	14	18
38.	W.	16	11
39.	B.	7	16
40.	W.	20	11
41.	B.	18	23
42.	W.	11	8
43.	B.	23	27
44.	W.	8	4
45.	B.	27	31
46.	W.	4	8
47.	B.	31	27
48.	W.	24	20
49.	B.	27	23
50.	W.	8	11
51.	B.	23	18
52.	W.	11	8
53.	B.	18	15
&c.
White loses.

Game II.

No.	Colour.	from	to
1.	B.	11	15
2.	W.	22	18
3.	B.	15	22
4.	W.	25	18
5.	B.	8	11
6.	W.	29	25
7.	B.	4	8
8.	W.	25	22
9.	B.	12	16
10.	W.	24	20
11.	B.	10	15
12.	W.	21	17
13.	B.	7	10
14.	W.	27	24
15.	B.	8	12
16.	W.	17	13
17.	B.	9	14
18.	W.	18	9
19.	B.	5	14
20.	W.	24	19
21.	B.	15	24
22.	W.	28	19
23.	B.	14	17
24.	W.	32	27
25.	B.	10	14
26.	W.	27	24
27.	B.	3	7
28.	W.	30	25
29.	B.	6	9
30.	W.	13	6
31.	B.	1	10
32.	W.	22	13
33.	B.	14	18
34.	W.	23	14
35.	B.	16	30
36.	W.	25	21
37.	B.	10	17
38.	W.	21	14
39.	B.	30	25
40.	W.	14	9
41.	B.	11	15
42.	W.	9	6
43.	B.	2	9
44.	W.	13	6
45.	B.	15	18
46.	W.	6	2
47.	B.	7	10
48.	W.	2	6
49.	B.	10	14
50.	W.	6	9
51.	B.	25	21
52.	W.	31	26
53.	B.	14	17
&c.
Drawn.

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FIREWORKS.

Our book is intended for the gratification of boys. We know full well the intense delight taken by boys in risking their limbs or their lives, especially when such risk is accompanied with noise. Boys always have done so, and always will do so in spite of the very best of advice or precautions. As, therefore, it is impossible to keep them from making noises and endangering themselves, we have in the following pages endeavoured to show them how to make as much noise as possible with as little danger as possible.

What is there that makes the most noise and is most dangerous? Gunpowder, of course. Therefore, we have given descriptions of the best methods of employing this material, feeling quite sure that of accidents with gunpowder nine out of every ten are caused by ignorance. We knew a boy who lost the use of a thumb, and took all the skin off the palm of his right hand, by ignorant management of powder. He had read of blasting rocks, and nothing would satisfy him but blasting a bank. So he bored a deep hole in it with a stick, filled the hole with gunpowder, and then poked a lighted lucifer into the powder. The consequence was, that his face was so scorched as not to be recognised, all his eyebrows and eyelashes and most of his hair were burned off, while his right hand was injured as has been already mentioned. Now that boy had been studiously kept out of the way of powder by female relatives, and was naturally profoundly ignorant of its effects. Had he been taught to handle it, he would not now be forced to keep his right hand closed, or to write by holding the pen between the fingers of his clenched hand.

GUNPOWDER.