Hop-scotch to hare-and-hounds, conjuring to chemistry, rabbits to rowing — the complete Victorian repertoire of things for a boy to do, set down with rules and diagrams.

Climbing Trees

2 pages in this part of Every Boy's Book.

Climbing Trees

In climbing trees the hands, and feet, and knees, are all to be used; but the climber should never forget that it is to the hands that he…

Climbing Trees: Giant

THE GIANT STRIDE, OR FLYING STEPS, AND ITS CAPABILITIES. The valuable and invigorating apparatus which is called the Giant Stride in some…

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