Jan. 1849. ANALOGIES OF MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 339 



games of " putting the stone" and " drawing the stone." 

 Chess, dice, draughts, Punch, hockey, and battledore and 

 shuttlecock, are all Indo-Chinese or Tartarian ; and no one 

 familiar with the wonderful instances of similarity between 

 the monasteries, ritual, ceremonies, attributes, vestments, 

 and other paraphernalia of the eastern and western churches, 

 can fail to acknowledge the importance of recording even 

 the most trifling analogies or similarities between the man- 

 ners and customs of the young as well as of the old. 



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