The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 778
ig. 5 ; it is, you see, in the shape of a bridge with nine archesjust wide enough to allow a marble to pass through, and overeach arch a number is placed. The numbers, it is to be observed,may be placed either in regular order or not, and may be anynumbers that the players please. The board may… … through the arches. For every unsuccessful shot a marblemust be paid to the bridge-keeper, and he, on the other hand,has to pay, for every successful shot, the number written abovethe arch through which the marble is sent. The marblesare shot from about four feet from the bridge. Knock-out, or…
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