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Updated: June 9, 2025
A man who would compare golf with shinny is capable of contrasting Venice with a drainage canal, and I came near telling him so. Golf and shinny! Whist and old maid! Pink lemonade and champagne! "No, sir, I never could see much in this golf game," said Harding, handing back my putter. "It certainly isn't much of a trick to hit one of those balls with a mallet like that.
The game of ball was played with crooked sticks, and is very much like the American boys' "shinny." The participants are dressed in a simple breech-cloth and moccasins. It is played with great enthusiasm and affords much amusement.
My team will set up at points one, two, and three. Astro and Roger at four, five, and six. Alfie and Shinny at seven, eight, and nine. After you've set up the charges, attach the triggers for the fuses and return to the ship. Watch your timing! If we fail, it'll be more than a year before Junior will be in the same orbital position again. How much time do we have left, Corbett?"
We wouldn't get as much speed as before, but we'd still save the copper." By this time, Astro and Shinny had joined the group and were standing outside the door in the passageway, listening silently. Connel tugged at his chin. "Let's see," he said, "if we could get back to Tara in three days ..." He looked up at Astro. "Do you think you could get us back in three days, Astro?"
"That's Arthur," Anna said. "No shinny th' day, mind ye." I joined Arthur and we sat on the wall of Gainer's pigsty. We hadn't been there long when "Chisty" McDowell, the superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School, was seen over in Scott's garden rounding up his scholars. We were in his line of vision and he made for us. We saw him coming and hid in the inner sanctum of the sty.
The three men left the dingy hotel and walked out into the main street of Spaceman's Row. In a few moments they arrived at the Café Cosmos. Roger was already there, seated at the same table and watching the door. When he saw Loring and Mason with Shinny, he eyed them warily. "Hiya, kid!" greeted Loring. "Glad to see you took my advice and got away from 'Blast-off' Connel."
"Why didn't you try to do something with it before?" asked Loring. "Never had no occasion to," answered Shinny. "Well, is it a deal, or isn't it?" "Too much," snapped Loring. "That's my price," said Shinny. "I could take the ship and not give you anything," sneered Loring. "If the Solar Guard looked for three months in that jungle, with a hundred men and instruments, do you think you'll find it?"
"I don't think there'll be another Major Connel in a million light years!" Shinny laughed silently, his small frame shaking slightly. "Say it again, Tommy. Not in the whole universe will there ever be another like old 'Blast-off' Connel!"
Outside, his only rival was Hughie, and at times Hughie's rivalry became dangerous. In all games that called for skill, activity, and reckless daring, Hughie was easily leader. In "Old Sow," "Prisoner's Base," but especially in the ancient and noble game of "Shinny," Hughie shone peerless and supreme.
The flat piece is tied to one end of the string, and the pin to the other end. The pin is held in the hand, and the flat piece is thrown into the air. The game is to catch the flat piece upon the point of the pin, by one of the holes. Eskimo boys play another game with a ball and a stick made of bone. It is something like shinny, one of the games yon play.
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