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WHY a game at once so graceful and attractive should have received such a christening I do not know, and I am equally at a loss to imagine how an outdoor sport like this, requiring skill and promoting a healthful exercise of the muscles, should have passed out of sight and become almost forgotten. Like Clerk Maxwell, I have played the game many a time some twenty years since, and hasten without further preliminary to describe it.
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GORHAM, J. “Devil on Two Sticks”. Nature 28, 172–173 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028172b0
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