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SPORTS AND GAMES.

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INTRODUCTION.

Many of the old open-air sports and games of Lancashire are now altogether lost, the names alone surviving. A few particulars as to the ancient customs in games and sports, as well as to those which still survive, shorn of their ancient garb, may interest the reader.