is more difficult to acquire, but it pays as does everything that
requires practice and effort. A good player, as in billiards, can make
his taw carom for position, or he can make it remain stationary, while
the marble struck shoots away in a straight line.

SOME GOOD GAMES

A boy can practice the above, and I would advise him to do so, but it
takes at least two boys to make a game--just as it takes two to make a
quarrel, and you must never be one of the latter. Just here let me say
that the boy who loses his temper, or who has not the manhood to
accept defeat in the right spirit, does not make a desirable friend or
playmate, for if he cannot conquer himself he is unfit to contest in
the sports of youth or in the business of maturer years.

FAT

Fat is one of our oldest and simplest marble games. It is played in
this way: Make a ring eighteen inches or two feet in diameter; ten
feet back draw or scratch a taw line to shoot from. If four boys are
playing, each places a marble, as indicated, or if there are more
players the marbles are placed at equal distances about the ring. The
order of the play having been decided on, by shooting or rolling
towards the taw line, the nearness to which decides the question,
number one shoots for the ring, and if he knocks out a marble, he
shoots again from where his taw rests, and so keeps on until he has
missed. Number two knuckles down at the taw line and shoots, as did
number one. If the first taw is within range, he can shoot at that,
and if he hits it, then number one must hand number two all the ducks
he has knocked from the ring. If number two can hit number one's taw