Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — Playing Cobble. [ARTICLE]

Playing Cobble.

Tbe horse-chestnut trees are catching it, nowadays, at the hands of small boys, or rather from stones and clubs impelled from their hands. For the cobble season is at hand. Cobble is a curious game. The horse-chestnut is suspended by a string which passes through a gimlet hole and is knotted. One boy holds out his cobble at arm’s length and his opponent whacks it with his cobble. The nut which remains unbroken adds a tally to the other cobble, and when that is smashed It adds two to the successful youth’s chestnut. And so it goes on, until a peculiarly tough nut may got a record of several hundred.—Worcester Gazette. Finding an unopened letter means that one will shortly have goot} sews.