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snatch up each separately ; which is not 

 easy without taking two, when so situated, 

 at once. 



4. When at length one person has taken 

 up all the sticks, his adversary is permitted 

 to replace the two last of them upon the 

 skin in any manner he chooses. He com- 

 monly separates them as widely as possible. 

 The person who had previously gained the 

 whole, is then required to take up both 

 these sticks at one throw of the ball, and 

 if he fails he must give up the game. 

 Thus the victory is often lost by means of 

 these two last sticks. 



5. When the adversary fails of his aim, 

 the other player is to take all the sticks 

 lying on the field, as well as those which, 

 after having been laid down by himself, 

 were won by the other person, and the 

 whole are to be laid down again directly, 

 in order to be taken up according to the 

 above rules. But he is no longer under 

 any obligation himself to take up the 

 sticks which he has thus laid for his com- 

 panion. 



