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At the end of the Monarchical Period, during the Manchu dynasty, we find those most in use to be foot-shuttlecock, lifting of beams headed with heavy stones dumb-bells four feet long and weighing thirty or forty pounds kite-flying, quail-fighting, cricket-fighting, sending birds after seeds thrown into the air, sauntering through fields, playing chess or 'morra, or gambling with cards, dice, or over the cricket- and quail-fights or seed-catching birds.
Quite otherwise, in its curious novelty, is their spirited and picturesque sport of foot-shuttlecock, a game which may be witnessed only in Asia, and in the perfection of its skill and agility only in Birmah and Siam. The shuttlecock is like our own, but the battledore is the sole of the foot. A number of young men form a circle on a clear plot of ground.
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