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spinning high into the air. Thereupon the fun begins in downright 
earnest. Such screaming, jumping, and frothing at the mouth by 
motion, and preventing its coming ground, whilst the 
struggles of the game all tend to keep the ball from being capt 
y the opposing 
e toy is made of an elongated (not exactly oval) piece of 
wood, its extreme length being 5 inches, and its great 
years “Of age up to the ngarumbin (old man) and galowr (old 
a game, they select a stretch of three or four hundred yards 0 
of »Smooth ground, at one end of which a mark is made by way 
a startpoint. When all is properly completed the game begins 
after the following fashion :— 
. One takes a short run up to the starting mark, and when he 
faches that he throws his wotchwie from him, so that it strikes 
