For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 57
hand shoot his tawwith his right so that it will-strike on the top or side of theduck and fly off near Firststaw, which he may then hitand kill. If number two misses theduck, number three pitches hismarble off to one side, andthus the game goes on, eachboy doing his best to guardhis own taw and to… … shot from the duck to the neighborhood of his playnrates marble. At the end of the game the same number of ducks of course remain in the ringthat were placed there. Ifany player misses the duckthat he is trying to makea fly shot on he loses histurn, and has the mortifi-cation of seeing his tawroll…
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