People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — Finding the Pinkey. [ARTICLE]

Finding the Pinkey.

When cards and dice are not convenient, “finding the pinkey” is a favorite form of betting tot drinks. The game consists of squeezing the fingers of one hand with the other in snoh a fashion that the tips all look alike. The other fellow in the game then tries to designate which is the little finger. If he designates the wrong finger, he pays for the drinks. If he succeeds, the owner of the fingers pays. An expert in the game can so arrange his fingers that the tips not only all look alike, bnt the little finger is found where one of the other fingers wonl'd naturally be. Betting on “finding the pinkey” is not always oonfined to drinks. Considerable sums are sometimes wagered on the entrancing game.—New York Sun.