I held up theshuttlecock and with a hasty gesture entreated her to remain.
Suddenly the shuttlecock was thrown awkwardly, and she burst into a merry laugh which made my heart throb violently, and the hedge appeared to tremble under my feet.
She did not answer, but silently put the shuttlecock and the trinket into her pocket, and then with inimitable dignity, waved the shuttlecock which she held in her hand towards me thanking me, as a princess might, for an homage due to her.
The game of battledoor and shuttlecock is a popular one with us from childhood upwards, but I am not aware that any close observer and noter of curious things has ever calculated how many shuttlecocks an ordinary battledoor will outlast.
Pierson [Footnote: See his Lecture before the American Institute of Instruction] of distorting the spine by playing atshuttlecock too frequently and too long; but this will seldom be the case with little children in the nursery.
Battledoor or shuttlecock may be taught to children of both sexes very early; and it affords a healthy and almost untiring source of amusement.
Neither shuttlecock nor any other amusement will secure their attention long enough to injure them very much.
There is also the popular game of shuttlecock, played not, however, with battledores, but with the sides of the soles of the shoes, and done so expertly that the shuttlecock will be kept flying in the air for several minutes at a time.
He was a high-spirited lad and full of animal spirits, and preferred to be flying kites or spinning tops, or tossing the shuttlecock from one to another with the side of his shoe, to serious study with his books.
I could understand that my father was disapproved of by them, and that I was a kind of shuttlecock flying between two battledores; but why they pitied me I could not understand.
We are anxious to play battledore and shuttlecock madly.
They bandied the wearifulshuttlecock of gallantry.
And now I shall call upon our very fair friend the Shuttlecock for the next story.
Even the languid, delicate Doll could not forbear a feeble smile, and the Shuttlecock became so indignant, that she would have bounced out of the party, had her powers been equal to her spirit.
A humming-top, whose key had departed, lay side by side with a shuttlecock that had been shorn of half its feathers.
So saying, the Shuttlecock feebly waved her last remaining dingy feather, and sank down on her side, as if in despair.
Then the Shuttlecock ceased to speak, and betook herself to her corner, to bewail in private the sad downfall she had endured.
The prince smiled as he saw the pocket open and the feathers of the shuttlecock peeping out.
Here it is, your majesty," shouted the prince, as he held up triumphantly the battledoor and shuttlecock high in the air.
The--" It was the second time the shuttlecock fell upon the paper.
The shuttlecock fell, at this instant, upon the paper upon which the king was writing.
There's nothing to be gained by playing battledore and shuttlecock with the name of an old man who has never done harm to any one.
The American Ambassador stood behind her, and, as permitted by his greater age, he tossed back the shuttlecock of her playful talk with chaff and laughter.
In that interesting "book for an idle hour" called The Shuttlecock Papers, Mr. J.
In the sketch Maclise has characteristically put in a shuttlecock just over the wall, as though the little ones were playing in the garden.
The battledore is readily made with a hickory stick and a piece of hoop, and the shuttlecock with a cork and a few short feathers.
The game is played by two players, each having a battledore, and each bats theshuttlecock from one to the other, the one failing to return it when it is batted to him within possible reach losing a point in the game.
II Battledore and Shuttlecock The shuttlecock soars upward In a parabola of whiteness, Turns, And sinks to a perfect arc.
For the grasshopper is leaping away, In half-circle curves, Shuttlecock curves, Over the grasses.
The shuttlecock drops zigzagedly, Out of orbit, Hits the path, And rolls over quite still.
Then the shuttlecock relinquishes, Bows, Descends; And the sharp blue spears of the air Thrust it to earth.
The royal shuttlecock being three-and-twenty, the battledores were very anxious to get him married.
No other shuttlecock was to be had, and their play was stopped.
Dulce shall keep her roses, and we will have battledore and shuttlecock every evening; but, if I have to keep the key of the work-room in my pocket, you and Dulce shall never enter it after tea.
Clara's clumsy gestures and Susie's short-sighted attempts, he was obliged to confess that battledore and shuttlecock wore a different aspect now.
His sisters played battledore and shuttlecock in the school-room sometimes, or out in the passages on a winter's afternoon.
The object of the players is to bat the shuttlecock from one to the other as many times as possible without allowing it to fall to the ground.
Frederick then took the shuttlecock and put it in his pocket: the little prince humbly asked pardon and begged the King to return him his shuttlecock.
The shuttlecock happened to fall upon the table at which the King sat, who threw it at the young prince and continued to write.
One day, while he was writing in his closet, the eldest of these princes was playing at shuttlecock near him.
This is played solely with the feet, the shuttlecock being kicked from one to the other with extraordinary dexterity.
The shuttlecock is often kept up for five or even ten minutes at a time, foot and eye working together with wonderful precision.
They are very fond of battledore and shuttlecock, but instead of using a battledore they hit the shuttlecock with their heads, elbows, or feet.
