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Show Twenty-two Centuries Old. " Most boys and some girls have ' " -played in their time the game of dibs . ' " or knucklebones, but few of them -know that the game has -exited siheo the third century B. C, and is probably prob-ably still older. How it was' played in " ancient days no one can tell but tho ankle-joint bones of the sheep ox deer-and pig were used, and the game was called "astragal," from the Latin word for the ankle-joint. In Scotland pebbles are often employed, whence ilame,'ChrkieS" Even Preclou. stones and gold and bronze "stones-have "stones-have been used, and in some countriea the bones were marked with number, and colored to represent king3 queens, knaves and pawns. |