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  1. Skittles

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    Skittles.
    This is another game which used to be played very much in this locality. This is how it is played. Five bits of sticks would be got about two inches long and about an inch and a half in diameter. These five sticks would be put standing on the ground in the following manner.
    Then there would be five bigger pieces of sticks got. These would be about nine inches in length and about two inches in diameter. A man or boy would get these five sticks in his hand and goes seven yards from the place
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Date
    19 April 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant