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 CHAPTER V.

MATERIALS FOR PLAY—RUNNING AND TRAINING. THE CROSSE, &c.

The Canadian Indians claim to have invented the present Crosse long before Jacques Cartier came to Canada. When the French first saw the game they gave it the name of La Crosse, the bat; and it is worthy of note that the use of the present shaped stick seems to have been almost entirely confined to Canada.



The Crosse is made of ash, hickory, rock-elm, or bass wood, and, like the other aboriginal constructions, such as the bark canoe, the snow-shoe and