The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 131
BUTTONS, a game played by anynumber of children, each of whomhas a button. The players stand inline and toss their buttons at a holein the ground about twelve feet dis-tant. They then take turns in play-ing, beginning with the one whosebutton came nearest to the hole, and … Method of Holding the Hand in Button. try, by striking the buttons with thethumb as they lie on the ground (seeillustration), to drive them into thehole. When any one succeeds, the button he drives in becomes his prop-erty. When he misses, the next onetakes his turn. The hand is heldstiffly in…
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