Excerpt from The Play Ground
This is a game played by hopping on one foot and kicking an oyster-shell or small flat stone from one compartment to the other, without halting the lifted foot, except in one case, to the ground, and without suffering the shell to rest on any of the lines. A diagram is first drawn similar to the subjoined. It consists of thirteen compartments, twelve being numbered, and the last one having a large P, standing for plum-pudding. In commencing the game, the players take their stand at the place marked by a star, and "quoit" for innings. He who can go nearest to the P, plays first.
Method of Playing. - The winner begins by throwing his shell into No. 1; he then hops into the space, and kicks the shell out to the star; he next throws the shell into No. 2, kicks it from No. 2 to No. 1, and thence out. He then throws it into No. 3, kicks it from 3 to 2, from 2 to 1, and out.
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