The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 778
An offing is then marked four or six feetaway, and the players shoot in succession. Sometimes picking the plums is played in a way very muchresembling arch-board. A player starts the game by drawing.a line on the ground, and arranging nine marbles on it (seeFig. 6), leaving such a space between… … 382 THE POPULAR RECREATOR. The game of Pyramid may be started by any enterprisingand speculative schoolboy. He has nothing to do but sit downon the ground, draw a small circle, and in it place three marblesat the three points of a triangle, with a fourth carefully placedon the top of these. He must…
Amusements · Games · Sports
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