How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 136
popular, and deservedly so, as theypossess an interest peculiarly their own. Here is a new and novel one, called Progressive Mining. It is played with flower-pots filled with sand or loose earth, called mines. A small flag on a slender staff is placed upright in the centre of each flower-pot (Fig.… … I20 Summer. \ o I - ^4. {t ^ me |f4 ?> great care not to upset the flag ; for the one causing the flag to fall loses the game. The numberof mines needed will depend uponthe number of persons playing, asone flower-pot is required for everytwo players. Each one taking part in the game,is provided…
