k'nicks

Updated: May 5, 2025

Occasionally two of the big eighth-grade boys would draw a six-foot circle in the earth and play for "K'nicks, dime ones," and the game would bring a crowd, three deep, from the neighboring players to applaud or gasp at each shot. Even John, man of business that he was, could not resist the temptation.

Herman Gastrell Seely - A Son of the City: A Story of Boy Life