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Calisthenics 



Camp 



Canoe and Canoeing 



Cards 



.val 

 Casino 

 Charade 

 Checkers 

 Chess 

 Circus 

 Coasting 

 Cockfighting 

 Cribbage 

 Crkl 

 Croqut-t 

 ing 



Dancing 



Delsarte System 

 Dice 



Throwing the 

 Dominoes 

 Dumb-bells 

 Euchre 

 Fandango 

 Fencing 

 Ferris Wheel 

 Fives 

 'Football 



Football, Association 

 Games and Plays 

 Golf 

 Gymn; 



Hammer, Throwing the 

 Hand Ball 

 Harlequin 

 Hippodniinc 

 Hockey 

 Hop Scotch 

 Hunting 

 Hurdling 

 Ice Yachting 

 Jackstones 

 raws 

 Jiu-Jitsu 



Kites 

 Lacr. 



Tennis 

 Legerdemain 

 Marbles 



.Moving Picture 

 I'antumime 

 Ping Pong 

 Piquet 



Play 



Pole Vault 



Polo 



Pool 



Prize-fighting 



Quadrille 



Quoits 



Place 



Riding 



Rouge-et-Noir 



Roulette 



Rounders 



Rowing 



Shot, Putting the 



Shuffleboard 



Skat 



Skates and Skating 



Ski 



Snowshoe 



Solitaire 



Swimming 



Target 



Tennis 



Theater 



Tobogganing 



Top 



Tournament 



Trawling 



Trolling 



Vaudeville 



Waltz 



War Game 



Whist 



Wrestling 



Yacht and Yachting 



known is Xenophon's absorbing story of the 

 . campaigns of the Greek mercenaries of Cyrus 

 the Younger against Artaxerxes, the Persian 

 king, his brother, and of the fighting retreat 

 of the 10,000 (Jiveks, under Xenophon's leader- 

 ship, from Persia to the Black Sea through Ar- 

 menia. The other story is Arrian's chronicle 

 of Alexander the Great. See XENOPHON. 

 ' ANACONDA, an a kon' da, a giant snake be- 

 longing to the boa-constrictor family, which 

 inhabits the swamps and rivers of the dense 

 South American forests, chiefly of Brazil and 

 Peru. The largest of all snakes, it grows to a 

 length of from thirty to forty feet. The ana- 

 conda is of a dark olive-brown color, with large, 

 oval, black spots along the back, and smaller 

 white spots along the sides. It can climb trees, 

 and is often to be found coiled around a branch 



ANABAPTISTS, an a bap' lists, a Christian 

 body of Reformation days, who did not be- 

 lieve in infant baptism, and therefore newly 

 baptized all who joined them. Those outside 

 the group regarded this as a second baptism 

 and calif (1 them Anabaptists, or "rebaptizers." 

 They were most active in Switzerland, Ger- 

 many and tin- Netherlands, and about 1532 

 > t up in the German city of Minister, 

 Westphalia, the "kingdom of the New Zion." 

 The city became the scene of cruelty, fanati- 

 cism and crime, and in 1535 was taken by the 

 Protestant princes. The leaders of the sect 

 were cruelly tortured and then killed, and the 

 Anabaptists do not appear again in history 

 as a distinct body. The modern Baptists are 

 the most important of the religious bodies that 

 reject infant baptism. See BAPTISTS. 



ANABASIS , a nab ' a sis, the name of two 

 famous Greek histories. The first and best 



THE ANACONDA 



This characteristic pose suggests its great 

 strength. 



waiting for its prey. This snake is also a water 

 animal, and its habit of lying in the streams, 

 with only a small part of the head above the 

 surface, has given it the local name of water- 

 boa. It feeds on birds, fish, monkeys and other 

 animals, and is said to attack human beings 

 , when hungry. It has n'o poison fangs, but kills 

 its prey by crushing it and then swallows it 

 whole. In a wild state anacondas are known 

 to live comfortably a month or even longer 

 without eating, because they usually gorge 

 themselves at a single feeding. In zoological 

 gardens where small animals are given them, 

 they are fed about once a week. The ana- 



