The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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the block on which the legs were fixed, with their long irons protruding upwards, was placed squarely under a beam which ran across the ceiling, from which was suspended the body at the correct angle and proper height from the surface of the block on which the feet rested, care being taken that the central axis of the body corresponded with the median line between the feet, the vertical position of the neck being ensured by a plumb line.

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