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The playground and the parlour: a handbook of boys\ games, sports, and amusements (1868)

Alfred Elliott. · leaf 62

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63 GAMES WITH MARBLES. each player puts a marble, called " the shot." From the offing the players in turn shoot at the ring, and whoso knocks … taw remains in the inner ring when shot, he is out, and must deposit a marble, and all the marbles won by previous dis- charges. It is the law, moreover, — and as unalterable as the laws of the Medes and Persians,— that if one player's taw is struck by another's, the taw so struck is looked upon as…

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