1st. A club is held forward and upright in each hand, the fore-arm
being placed horizontally, by the haunch on each side (Plate IV. fig.
1); both are thrown in a circle upward, forward, and, by a turn of the
wrist, downward and backward, so as to strike under the arms (Plate
IV. fig. 2); by an opposite movement, both are thrown back again in a
similar circle, till they swing over the shoulders (Plate IV. fig. 3);
and this movement is continued as long as agreeable.
2nd. The clubs are held obliquely upward in each hand, lying on the
front of the arms (Plate IV. fig. 4); that in the right hand is allowed
to fall backward (Plate IV. fig. 5), and swings downward, forward to
the extent of the arm, and as high as the head (Plate IV. fig. 6);
the moment this club begins to return from this point, in precisely
the same direction, to the front of the arm, that in the left hand is
allowed to drop backward, and to perform the advancing portion of this
course in the time that the other performs the returning portion, so
that each is at the same time swinging in an opposite direction.
3rd. From either of the first positions now given, the clubs are,
by a turn of the body and extension of the arms, thrown upwards and
laterally (Plate V. fig. 1);--make, at the extent of the arms, and in
front of the figure, a circle in which they sweep downward by the feet
and upward over the head (Plate V. fig. 2), and fall in a more limited
curve towards the side on which they began (Plate V. fig. 3), in such a
manner that the outer one forming a circle around the shoulder and the
inner one round the head, (both passing swiftly through the position
in the last figure of the first exercise,) they return to the first
position;--this is repeated to the other side;--and so on alternately.
4th. Beginning from either first position, the body being turned
laterally,--for example, to the left, the club in the right hand is
thrown upward in that direction at the full extent of the arm (Plate
VI. fig. 1), and makes the large circle in front and curve behind as in
the last exercise (Plate VI. fig. 2), while the club in the left hand
makes at the same time a smaller circle in front of the head and behind
the shoulders (Plate VI. figs. 1, 2, and 3), until crossing each other
before the head (rather on the right side), their movements are exactly
reversed, the club in the right hand performing the small circle round
the head, while that in the left performs the large one,--and these
continue to be repeated to each side alternately.
[Illustration: _Plate V_
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