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 453
Horses in the Stable.practice. Some of them can bemastered only after hours or evendays of hard work. A game ofJack-stones between two or morepersons is thus only a trial to seewhich is most perfect in the exer-cises. History. Jack-stones is mentionedby the Greek poet, Aristophanes, asa girls game… … Greek Girl Playing Jack-stones,played it with the knuckle-bones of jsheep, and it is still so played injEurope, but in this country pebbles] JACK-STRAWS 445 JUSTICE IS BLIND or iron Jack-stones are commonlyused. In England it is calledDibs. Cockall wasan old namefor it, and the French call it…
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