Show GAME OF THE DEVIL it ia rom roii china and aed to ISO clayed in europe lu rope what is called the game of the devil dates badelt bacat to hina china chere w here it is called bouen gen to a very remote antiquity ty aud and has been played cd in ili france at fil Ferent epochs of modern times esix especially chally at the beginning of the present century the devil is thrown into ti the ic air by means of a string which the player keeps taut by the t use of two sticks stick and upon which he is to catch it 1 I remember having often seen this game in the hands of one of my iny friends friend says mays a contributor to a french periodical according to him the enic was in great faar avor in I 1 belgium clylus in lot liis ills boyhood about fifteen years ao to especially at colic where vIi ere the young men luen often pot got up genuine gennine matches between two and even three thre players the ille devils devil form varies a little from that of tile the kouan gen cn it is made of two tin cones connected by their apices and provided with apertures aper tures for the pi of a humming bound when the devil revolves very last fat A good strong player can easily casily throw it to a height of than forty feet S less than a quarter of a ventury ago this game was much plied at aaris the devil was made of two hollow boxwood balls |