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She ran and got her ball and the two little friends sat down on the concrete walk to play jackstones, heedless of the hot morning sun. Sister had won one game and Nellie two, when they heard Louise calling. "Sister! Sister! Where are you? If you want to help fix the fishpond, you'll have to come right away."
His mouth tightened no girl on earth, even Nancy, could realize exactly what that meant the battle to recover steadiness and temperance and sanity in a temperament that was in spite of its poised externals most brilliantly sensitive, most leapingly responsive to all strong stimuli a temperament moreover that the war and the armistice between them had turned wholly toward the stimuli of fever and Ted had made it with neither bravado nor bluster and without any particular sense of doing very much and now this girl was going to smash it and him together as if she were doing nothing more important than playing with jackstones.
Then Sister, whose memory had been waking up, spoke. "Please, Dick," she said in a very little voice. "Please, I had the buttons." "Oh, you did!" Dick quite forgot to smile at her. "What did you want 'em for? Where are they now?" "You see, I was playing jackstones with Nellie Yarrow, and afterward I I left them in my pocket " Sister's voice trailed off.
In the coffee-houses, besides smoking and gossiping, we also played games, either chess or backgammon or munkula. This last is an exceedingly primitive and ancient game it must date almost as far back as jackstones or knucklebones. I have seen the natives in Central Africa and the Indians in the far interior of Brazil playing it in almost identical form.
Now fairly at its dread work of destruction, tearing up the rain dampened dirt and playing with mighty boulders, tossing them here and there, as a giant of olden tales might play with jackstones, snapping off sturdy trees and whipping them to splinters even while hurling them as a farmer sows his grain.
I soon came across him: he was playing jackstones with some other boys in the church-porch. I called him aside, and, hardly waiting to take breath, I stammered out that my parents were very angry with me for giving the watch away, and that if he was willing to give it back to me I would gladly pay him for it. I had brought an Elizabeth ruble with me, which was all my savings.
Dick had several new ties, and Sister had to admire these before she could leave the chiffonier. Finally she slipped the box of pretty buttons in her pocket and jumped down. She put the chair where she had found it, and ran downstairs and through the hedge that separated the Morrison house from that of Dr. Yarrow's. "Nellie, oh, Nellie!" called Sister. "Come on, let's play jackstones."
They were little Jew girls, little Goldnagels, in short, and while one of them sat and played at jackstones with a flat-looking rubber ball, the other and smaller lay prone upon her stomach, weeping with passionate abandon. Her agonized wails indicated the end of the world, and worse. Carlisle said kindly: "What's the matter, little girl?"
They can be Red Cross nurses if they want to. But we won't call 'em until after the fight. They'd only holler like anything." Rose and Violet were up in the bungalow playing jackstones, while Margy and Mun Bun had gone for a walk with their mother. So Russ and Laddie had the beach to themselves to play on. Russ got inside the fort and crouched down in the hole he had dug.
They played in the sand, went crabbing and fishing, wading and swimming. One hot afternoon, when it was too warm to do more than sit in the shade, Mrs. Bunker, who had been lying on the porch in a hammock reading, laid aside her book and looked up. "Where has Mun Bun gone?" she asked Rose, who was playing jackstones near by. "And did Margy go with him?" "I don't know, Mother," Rose answered.
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