mixed-double

Updated: May 14, 2025

Looking down astern from the boat-deck or from B deck to the steerage quarters, I often noticed how the third-class passengers were enjoying every minute of the time: a most uproarious skipping game of the mixed-double type was the great favourite, while "in and out and roundabout" went a Scotchman with his bagpipes playing something that Gilbert says "faintly resembled an air."

Lawrence Beesley - The Loss of the S. S. Titanic : Its Story and Its Lessons