Obfervations on fome old-fashioned Games on Cards. BUILDING HOUSES WITH CARDS. This is a very useful and admirable diverfion; it was from this game, that Sir Chriftopher Wren had his firft ideas of architecture; and the great Coborn his earliest notions of fortification. From this our little ones not only get a taste for building, but behold in emblem the glaffy precariousnefs of all human fabrics; and here again the doctrine of patience and diligence are tacitly inculcated. COMMERCE AND TRAFFIC. I think there is no one fo hardy as to deny the expediency, and even the neceffity of this being taught the children of a trading nation. Here the little traffickers barter their mock merchandize, and lifp the language of the 'Change. Here they have the earliest impreffions of the ad. vantage and pleasure of honeft induftry, and learn that noble Jeffon of doing honour to their country, at the fame time they are enriching themselves. The fifh being made ufe of as ftakes, has a glorious effect; for it both naturally and unadvoidably turns their thoughts to maritime atfairs; and when they receive money for them, they cannot but reflect on Britannia's gold. mine, or the British herring fishery tor ever; and they view future wealth through the pleasing profpectglafs of hope. DRIVE THE KNAVE OUT OF DOORS That this is a game of a very moral tendency is manifeft from its title; teaching our youth how people of that denomination ought to be ferved, and deterring them from difhoneft practices by 149 the force of example. The dif. ficulty that attends the expulfion of the knave, fhews them that a rafcal is not always eafily to be got rid of; from whence they may learn fome knowledge of the world. BRAG. Which is peculiarly adapted to the fair and softer sex, and therefore fo much in vogue amongst the ladies of distinction. Hereby they acquire a decent assurance, and competency of countenance, fo abfolutely neceffary in life; and remedy that fhamefacedness, which is a defect of nature, by the affiftance of her handmaid art. I must add, that it is a game truly military, and it is a very unfoldier-like thing not to underftand it; it was imported into this kingdom by fome travellers, who are all fond of it to this day. LOO, AND LAUGH AND LIE The latter of which is of moral import, and very inftructive; pointing out to the British fair the evil confequence of exceffive gigling: and the former, in which Pam is so often called upon to be civil, gives a practical hint for the promotion of urbanity and good manners. CRIBBAGE. This is a game which tries the genius, and teaches the art of thriving, efpecially when sharp's the work, and you play accurately. A man learns humility at this diverfion, by being "taken down a peg lower." In short, I look upon it abfolutely neceffary for the matriculation of fuch perfons, as try in public characters. are intended to ferve their coun MY 150 MY LADY'S HOLE. Germandizing. That this game was invented by a perfon of quality, is too ob. vious to be insisted upon, from the dignity of its appellation. It is an amusement attended with many exquifite confequences, bur is rather too obnoxious to the punftes, who are not aware that it is evidently derived from the Latin word totus, which fignifies the whole, or fum total; that is, in fhort, the fweepstakes. GORMANDIZING!-A trifling con. traft in the fashion of the Times. N the regiftry of proceedings of the parish of St. Ewens, in Bristol, the cost for a breakfast, c. on Corpus Chrifti-day, anno domiai, 1460, is thus entered on the church, or parish book of record, extracted verbatim et literatim. Item. For a calve's head and hinge Item. For bread and ale S. d. Item, For Mafter Parson, for his dinner 4 2 1 as with pleafure, your unwearied penible with every Sportsman 1 having been a conftant fubfcriber fince its fift publication, and perceiving what polite atten. tion you have at all times paid to the communications of your ñu. merous correfpondents, have more than once made a refoluton of tranfmitting my mite towards the general entertainment; but illness and a complicated ftate of affairs in domeftic life, has, tin 2 now, prevented me, which being happily at an end, I have taken up my pen on the fubje&t of ancient porting; and fhall (with your leave) commence with ả brief account of the PUBLIÊ GAMES OF GREECE, and the prin cipal exercifes ufed in them; which, if they may be found worthy your notice, I propose (from time to time) treating of them fyftemas tically, being happy at all times to lend every affiftance in my power to a work fa highly en titled to public approbation. I am, Gentlemen, In the year 1794, by the fame parish books appears an entry, "A fupper for the parish officers to fettle their accounts, and to regulate the affeffment of their poor rate, the fum of 50l. 175. 2d. Sic tranfit gloria mundi ! To the EDITORS of the Sporting Have at all times received much fatisfaction and enter tainment in the perufal of your agreeable Sporting Companion, (if you will allow me the expreffion) With every fenfe of refpect, and have frequently obferved, Berkshire, Dec. 20, 1795. THESE Account of the Public Games of Greece. THESE games, which were and auguft; happy were their re called folemn, from the term leg,lations, and thrice happy their i. e. facred, from the esteem in which they were held all over Greece, from every part of which vaft multitudes of fpectators flocked to them; and partly be caufe they were inftituted in honour of the gods, or deified heroes, and always begun with facrificing to them, and concluded in the fame religious manner. parents. It is a remarkable story which Plutarch relates of Spartan, who, meeting Diagoras, that had himself been crowned in the Olympian games, and feen his fons and grand-children vic tors, embraced him and faid, "Die, Diagoras, for thou canst no be a god." By the laws of Solon, 100 drachms were allowed from the public treafury to every Athenian who obtained a prize in the Ifthmian, and 500 drachms to fuch as were victors in the Olympian games. Afterwards, the latter of these had their maintenance in the Pryta neum, or public hall of Athens. At the fame place, it was forbid. harlots their names from any of their games, which was accounted a dishonour to the folemnities. Hence there is a dilpute in Atheneus, how it came to pafs, that Nemea, the minstrel, was fo called from the Nemean games. Sach as obtained victories in any of thefe games, efpecially the Olympic, were univerfally honoured, wav, almost adored : their return home, they rode in a triumphal chariot into the city, the walls being broken down to give them entrance; which was done (as Plutarch is of opi. nion) to fignify that walls are ofden by the laws to give llaves or fmall ufe to a city that is inhabit. ed by men of courage and ability to defend it. At Sparta, they had an honourable poft in the army, being placed near the King's perfon. At fome places they had prefents made to them by their fellow citizens; were honoured with the fift feats at all fhews and games, and ever after maintained at the public expence. Cicero reports, that a victory in the Olympic games was not much less honourable than a triumph at Rome. Happy was that man thought, that could but obtain a single victory. If any perfon merited repeated rewards, he was thought to have attained to the utmost felicity that human nature is capable of; but if he came off conqueror in all the exercifes, he was elevated above the condition of men, and his actions stiled wonderful victories. Nored to the conqueror, who carried did their honours terminate in themselves, but were extended to all about them; the city that gave them birth and education was esteemed more honourable There were certain perfons appointed to take care that all things were performed according to custom, to decide controverfies that happened amongst the antagonifts, and adjudge the prizes to thofe that merited them; these umpires generally carried a kind of rod or fceptre in their hands, in order that they might be distinguifhed in their official fituation. After the judge had paffed fentence, a public heroid proclaimed the name of the victor, as a mark of approbation. The token of victory was, in most places, a palm branch, which was prefent it in his hand; which cuflom was first introduced by Thefeus, at the inftitution of the Deliau. games. Theprincipal exercifes ufed in the 152 Experiments on Glandered Horfes. the Grecian games, are as follow: viz. Leaping, running, throwing, darting, and wrestling. Running was in great esteem among the ancient Grecians, infomuch, that fuch as prepared themselves for it, thought it worth their while to ufe means to burn, or parch their spleen, because it was believed to be an hinderance to them, and retarded them in their course. "Swiftnefs," fays Homer, "is one of the moft excellent endow. ments it is poffible for a man to be bleffed with." No greater honour has e'er been attain'd, Than what trong hands and nimble feet have gain'd. Indeed all thofe exercises that conduced to fit men for war, were more especially valued. Swiftnefs was looked upon as an excellent qualification in a warrior, because it ferves for a fudden affault and onfet, and likewise for a nimble retreat; therefore, it is no won. der as to the general character which Homer gives of Achilles, that he was fwift of foot; and in the holy fcripture, David in his poetical lamentations over those Throwing or darting was performed in feveral ways; fometimes with a javelin, rod, or other inftrument of a large fize, which they threw out of their naked hands, or by the help of a thong tied about the middle of it. The quoit formerly ufed by the Gre cians was made of ftones, brafs or iron, which they threw by the help of a thong, put through a hole in the middle of it, but in a manner entirely different from that in which they threw the dart: then the hands were lifted up and extended, whereas the difcus was hurled in the manner of a bowl. It was of various figures and Gizes, being fometimes four fquare, but ufualiy broad and like a lentil. EXPERIMENTS on GLANDERED HORSES, made by the late M. SAINBEL, in the Veterinary, School, at Lyons; extracted from the Works of that ingenious Profeffor. (Continued from page 74) EXPERIMENT III. LARGE cart - horse, ten two great captains Saul and Jor years old, having the lymA nathan, takes particular notice of their warlike character; "they were," fays he, "fwifter than eagles, ftronger than lions." But to return- -The courfe on which the Grecians exercised their fports, was enlarged or contracted as occafion required. They have been frequently known to run in armour. The exercife of leaping they fometimes performed with weights upon their heads, or fhoulders, fometimes carrying them in their hands, which were often in various fhapes, but gene. rally in an oval form, made with holes, or covered with thongs, through which the contenders put their fingers. phatic gland on the right fide much obstructed, hard, and infenfible, the membrane ulcerated, with a difcharge of yellowish and fœtid matter, was put upon the following course: ift, The animal was reduced to bran and white water for food; and was bled twice in the space of two days. On the 3d I perfo med the operation of the tre pan in two places; and injected into the nazal foveas and finules, a ftrong decoction of wormwood. The injection was continued for fix days, with the addition of honey. The 10th, the injection was made Experiments on Glandered Horses. made with the fecond lime water. It was continued to the 15th. The 16th, 3 drams of thiops mineral, incorporated with honey, were given. The injections were made with the first lime-water, and continued to the 24th, as alfo the bolus, with an addition of a dram of Ethiops mineral. At that period the running was di minished one half, and the matter had become more laudable. continued the fame courfe of medicine to the 40th. I The 41ft, the running was almoft fuppreffed, and the fize of the gland confiderably diminished, the injections and the bolus were continued to the 50th, when the running ceafed. The injection was now repeated only every other day; the bolus was reduced to two drams. The 61ft, I difcontinued all medicine, and foon after the horse was gradually brought to his usual quantity of food. He was placed in another ftable; his dress was changed; he was looked after by another groom, and walked out every day in an enclosed place; during which time his former ftable was well washed, and fumigated with brimstone, gunpowder, fpirit of vitriol, and juniper berries. All these precautions, however, did not prevent the running at the nofe from returning at the end of three weeks: The animal was then killed. On opening him, the noftrils exhibited the membrane ulcerated in three or four places only. One of them, which was broad and deep, had attacked the bony fub. ftance. The finufes contained much yellowish matter, mixed with bloody filaments, produced by the dilaceration of the fmall veffels. Part of the villous membrane of the ftomach was flightly inflamed; the cardiac orifice was VOL. VII. No. XXXIX. 153 a little more fo; the inflammation had alfo reached the flender inteftines; the left lobe of the lungs was inflamed, and filled with a black, thick blood: this might be either the confequence of the Æthiops mineral or of the virus of the glanders. EXPERIMENT IV. Two Danish coach-horses, the one feven years old, the other eight: the first was in the confirmed glanders; the fecond with the fame diforder, but at that ftage which we at prefent deem its beginning only. They were placed in two feparate ftables, and put under the following courfe: ift, They were kept without hay for fome days, and had bran and white water for food. 2dly, They were blooded at the jugular vein; and to each two emollient clyfters were given. 3dly, A decoction of mallows, marth-mallows, pellitory, elder flowers, and camomile, was injected into the noftrils. 4thly, The horse which was most infected was made to fwallow a bolus, compofed of four drams of mercury, and as much cream of tartar, incorporated in a fufficient quantity of honey. The other horfe took a bolus compofed of two drams of precipitate per fe, or the precipitate of mercury, incorporated with honey. The injections, clyfters, and bolufes, were continued to the 20th. The 21ft, the running was much increased in the former; the matter alfo began to grow brown and bloody at intervals; and the ob ftruction in the lymphatic glands was enlarged. In the latter, the running was lefs abundant; the matter was clear and tranfparent, the glands lefs hard and voluminous. The fame courfe was fol lowed U |