For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 374
47 First, with your heel make a number of holes aboutthree feet apart and all in a line, one hole for each boy inthe game. When there is a shallow hole for each boy letevery boy stand by and guard his particular hollow, whilethe boy at one end attempts to roll the ball slowly over theline of the… … Fig. 281.—Game of Black Baby. This cannot go on long before the ball stops in one ofthe holes. As soon as this happens all the players exceptthe one at the hole where the ball stops scamper away fordear life, shouting, Black baby ! Black baby ! while theremaining lad seizes the ball as quickly as…
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