Sharleston Miss Fowler, Rev. G. T. Royds. Sheffield Mr. S. O. Addy, Miss Lucy Garnett. Wakefield Miss Fowler. SCOTLAND.
This game is played in the South, California, and in Mexico and Cuba, and is played with two white and one red ball, and five pins placed similar to those in Pin Pool. The red ball is placed on the red-ball spot, and the first player strikes at it from within the baulk semicircle. The game is scored by winning and losing hazards, carroms, and by knocking over the pins. It is usually played thirty points up. The player who knocks down a pin after striking a ball gains _two_ points, if he knocks down two pins he gains _four_ points, and so on, scoring two points for each pin knocked down. If he knock down the middle pin alone he gains _five_ points. The player who pockets the red ball gains _three_ points and two for each pin knocked down by the same stroke. The player who pockets the white ball gains two points, and two for each pin knocked over with the same stroke. Each carrom counts two. The player who knocks down a pin or pins with his own ball before striking another ball loses two for every pin so knocked down.
I got to find it, she said desperately. The weak place. I flopped on the bed, stretched my arm out against the counterpane. She ran her fingers over it--the old laying on of hands. If she were the real thing, I knew what it was--perception at a level a TK can t match. The real healers feel the nerves themselves. I d been worked on before. The more hysterical healers, some really creepy witches, had given me some signs of relief, but none could ever find the real weak place, as she called it. She was mumbling to herself. I guess you could call it an incantation.
There was no guessing; the closed hands were looked into (A. B. Gomme). Mr. Addy has collected a similar game called My lady s lost a gold ring, and Mr. Newell (_Games and Songs of American Children_, p. 150) has another, Hold fast my gold ring. Dibbs A game played with the small knuckle-bones taken from legs of mutton; these bones are themselves called dibs (Lowsley s _Glossary of Berkshire Words_). Holloway s _Dictionary_ says five of these bones are used by boys, with which they play a game called Dibs in West Sussex. See Check-stones, Fivestones, Hucklebones.
=_ If a player begins with less than the proper number of men, the error cannot be rectified after the player has made a throw for his move. _=3.=_ The players must each cast a single die for the privilege of first move, the higher winning. Ties throw again. _=4.=_ By mutual consent it may be agreed to let the higher throw play the points on his own and his adversary’s die for the first move; otherwise he must throw again with two dice. _=5.=_ Each player must throw the dice into the table on his right hand, and if either die jumps into the other table, or off the board, both dice must be taken up and thrown again. _=6.=_ To constitute a fair throw, each die must rest flat upon the board, and if either die is “cocked” against the other, or against the edge of the board or of a man, both dice must be taken up and thrown again.