The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 472
132. … 133. Those that are standing, and those that are seated belowthem, are evidently engaged in a similar kind of pastime. Theonly game within the compass of my knowledge that bears anyresemblance to it, I have seen played by two persons: one ofthem alternately holds up the fingers of his right hand,…
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