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In order that you may understand I give these just as he had written them. HOW TO FIND ITTE: From inlet nearest shore go 200 paces to summit where Grove is. From most eastern palm measure 12 steps to Ye Umbrela Tree and seven beyond. Take a Be line from here thirty paces throu ye Forked Tree. Here cut a Rite Anggel N. N. E. till Tong of Spit is lost.
One of its many advantages is that almost any jungle will provide wood from which the itte and the dhandu are easily shaped with a pocket knife. A game, not unlike "Tom Tiddler's ground," is very popular, chiefly on moonlight nights, amongst men and boys. It is often played in the streets of cities when traffic has ceased.
While I waited for my chop I had the map out again, studying it as a schoolboy does a paper-backed novel behind his geography. Beneath the map were some closely written lines of directions for finding "itte," whatever that might be. As to that my guess never wavered. Whoever had drawn the map had called the peninsula "Doubloon Spit." Why?
And at last the Tin Soldier cried out, 'I can't stand it. I want to go to the wars I want to go to the wars! But nobody listened or cared." "Poor 'itte sing," Margaret-Mary crooned. "If I had been there," Teddy proclaimed, "I'd have put him on the floor and told him to run and run and run!"
Margaret-Mary in a diminutive blue dressing gown and infinitesimal slippers, with her curls brushed tidily up from the back of her neck and skewered with a hairpin, came over and laid her hand on his knee. "Dus a 'itte 'tory?" she asked ingratiatingly. She adored stories. He picked her up, and she curled herself into the corner of his arm. Her mother found her there.
Not far from this were three little circles, beneath which was one word in capitals, "ITTE." My heart leaped like an unleashed foxhound taking the trail. What could it mean but treasure? What had happened to the Santa Theresa? Had some one helped Lobardi to "croke" by cracking his skull? Could that dim, red ink once have been, the life blood in a man's veins?
It is a wholesome and entirely harmless form of amusement, except for the betting which takes place at the big contests. There is a fine game called itte-dhandu, after the names of the two pieces of wood with which it is played. It is a little like tip-cat. The itte is a rounded bit of wood 2-1/2 inches long and perhaps an inch in diameter.
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