Child, L. M. (1833). The Girl’s Own Book. Ireland: Clark Austin & Company. By the Victorian era, this seems to have evolved into the Mulberry Bush game: Mackarness, M. A. P. (1888). The Young Lady’s Book: Continue
I was researching something else entirely and came upon a reference to the game Hunt the Slipper. Every Boy’s Book: A Complete Encyclopaedia of Sports Continue
This cleaning method appeared in The Family Receipt Book (1819).
While not a unique to the Regency, hunt the fox was a popular children’s chasing game. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Continue
