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Identifier: stnicholasserial251dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ketchedpictures of various kinds. Pictures of beautifulwomen, of the heroes of ancient Japanese his-tory, of the many species of dragon, the idealmonster, all serve to make the kites attractive.The humming kite is a favorite one and some-times the air is filled with the musical soundsmade by a swarm of them. These kites are 492 THE LITTLE JAPANESE AT HOME. (April, made with a thin piece of bamboo or whale-bone stretched across, placed so as to vibratein the wind. The vibration makes a hummingnoise somewhat like the sound of an asolianharp. In the provinces where snow remains long onthe ground, the winter outdoor sports are muchthe same as in such places in America. Build- are general favorites, and the whipping-top alsois known. A flag game was very much played by boysat school, or in towns and districts, until it wasforbidden by the government on account of itsinjurious effects upon many boys. It was aa mock fight, and was called the Genji andHeiki, from the same two celebrated rival
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LITTLE JAPANESE BOYS, WITH KITES AND A TOP ing snow-forts and snow-men, fighting withsnowballs, coasting, and sliding on the icemake up the principal sports. Boys become very skilful in the use of stilts,on which they run races, and even wrestle. Popguns and blowguns, dear to the heartsof all little noise-makers, are well known tothem. Mimic fights with tops are common. Twoplayers wind and throw their tops so that theywill come into collision, and he whose top isdamaged or stopped from spinning is the loser.The tops for these fights are made of very hardwood, and are iron-clad with a heavy metalring. Some of the more ordinary spinning-topsare of light make. A singular kind of top is madeof a one-valve shell filled with wax. Musicaltops, made to produce notes in different keys, families before mentioned. The boys dividedthemselves into two parties, one side with whiteflags, the other with red. The white flags be-longed to the Genji, the red to the Heiki. Atthe tap of a drum, the two si

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