The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland : with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 43
iwell's Dictionary}. Toone mentions it as played in Norfolk (Diet.}, and Moor as played in Suffolk with bricks usually, or, in their absence, with bats in place of bails or stumps {Suffolk Words}. Banger Each boy provides himself with a button. One of the boys lays his button on the ground, near a… … When it hits the button and bounces within one span, it counts four (fig. i); within two spans, three; and above three spans, one. Each player snaps in turn for an agreed number ; the first to score this number wins the game. — Deptford, Kent, and generally in London streets (Miss Chase). This game…
Games -- Great Britain
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