Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1888 — An Arabian Game of Marbles. [ARTICLE]

An Arabian Game of Marbles.

The Arabs play marbles differently from the American boys. Of course the arrangement of the marbles to be shot at can be varied in many ways, but the young Arabs shoot the marble in a way of their own and much more accurately than the American lads. The left hand is laid flat on the ground with the fingers closed together, and the marble is placed in the groove between the middle finger and forefinger. The forefinger of the right hand is then pressed firmly on the end joint of the middle finger, and when the middle finger is suddenly pushed aside the forefinger of the right hand slips out

with more or less force and projects the marble very accurately in the direction of the groove on the left hand. Many of the boys become very expert —St. Nicholas.