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 173
it is sup-posed to have beenbrought from theEast. The wordcheckers is derivedfrom the squaresof the board.Draughts meanssimply moves. InItaly the game iscalled dama, andin Germany Da-men,both. oi^Nh\chmean ladies; andin France it iscalled Le jeu dedames, the LadiesGame. In all thesecountries, wh… … Rameses II. playing Checkers. (TToAff) of the Greeks. In both ofthese a man could be captured onlyby placing an opponents man on CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS 165 CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS each side of him. The Greeks calledthe men Dogs. The donkey boysin Cairo, Egypt, play a game likethis, and some think…
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