“Devil on Two Sticks”

Abstract

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.