The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom; (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 137
escribed and illustrated by Strutt {Sports and Pastimes, p. 270, 271), which is reproduced here. It will be seen that Jamieson describes it as played with a pole or cudgel. He says this game no doubt gave origin to the modern one of " Nine-pins ; " though primitively the Kayle- pins do not appear… … Jamieson {Dictionary) gives this as " RoUie-poly," a game of nine-pins, called also Kayles. The name " RoUie-poly " was given to it because it was played with a pole, or cudgel, by which the pins were knocked over. In the West of Scotland, where this game was in great repute in olden times, it…
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