"THE game of Bandy, or, as it is often called, 'Hockey on the Ice', is not of modern origin, although until within the last fifteen or twenty years it had, perhaps, never been systematically played elsewhere than in the eastern counties, and few persons outside that district had never seen it, or, indeed, heard of its existence. And, in regards, the eastern counties, it would seem to have been confined to a small district lying on the east of Huntingdonshire, and the west of Cambridgeshire, the centre of which was the village of Earith. The game may have been played on Cowbit Wash, on the washes lying between the New Nene and Morton's Leam, on the meres, now, alas! dry land, of Ramsey and Whittlesea. But if it, indeed, flourished on these waters, we have no records and no information of th