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 straps, usually about an inch broad, fastened on either side of the horse's mouth, and carried back over the harness to the driver's hand.

Road cribbage. A game much played in old coaching days in which opposing parties took different sides of the road and scored points according to agreement for various selected natural objects such as cows, sheep, pigs, &c.

Also called Road Game and Road Piquet.

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