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Updated: May 1, 2025
By keeping the two lights in one, we knew that we were standing for the passage over the bar into the harbour. It was just daylight as we entered the broad estuary where the rivers Taw and Torridge flow into the ocean. We came off Appledore, at the mouth of the Torridge, on which Bideford is situated.
When all is ready First Back takes a position, with one foot on either side of the taw line and his side toward the players. Foot-an'-half is the last to jump, and knowing what is expected of him, he leaps as far as he can. Where his heels come down another line is drawn. To this line First Back moves, placing a foot on either side. Now comes the test of the leader.
When number two misses, the next in order shoots, either at the ring or at the line taw, and so the game proceeds till all the marbles are knocked out, or all but the last player are killed.
Lofting means shooting through the air, so that your taw does not touch the earth till it hits the object aimed at or a point near it. Knuckling Down means resting the knuckles on the ground while shooting. Histing or Hoisting is holding some distance above the ground. It is not permitted in Bull Ring or in Meg-on-a-string. Roundsters means taking a new position to avoid an obstruction.
"Didn't you hear me?" exclaimed Blackall furiously. "Get out of my way, I say." Ernest did not move, but took his taw and again fired, with the same effect as before. Blackall's fury was now at its highest pitch. He rushed at Ernest, and lifting him with his foot sent him spinning along the ground. Ernest was not hurt, so he got up and said, "I wonder you can treat a stranger so.
Presently he stood on the side of lofty Steeperton and surveyed that vast valley known as Taw Marsh, which lies between the western foothills of Cosdon Beacon and the Belstone Tors to the north. The ragged manes of the latter hills wind through the valley in one lengthy ridge, and extend to a tremendous castellated mass of stone, by name Oke Tor.
He swore Dixie Hart was a meddlesome hussy, an' that she had cheated the hindsight off of me. He said she owed him an' was behind in her pay, an' that he was goin' to fetch 'er to taw." Henley went back to his desk. There was a flush on his brow. "Beat to a finish, and by a girl," he mused.
And that ain't all," exclaimed Miss Jane, solemnly; "Jack is ruined, and Rose is distracted." "Ah!" said the Squire. "Yes," said Miss Jane. "Trouble is always double and thribble. Rose was here last Tuesday, and she sot by the winder there and watched Jack all the time she stayed. "'That's what I call courtship at long taw, s' I.
If number two misses, number three pitches his marble off to one side, and so the game goes on, each player guarding his own taw and trying to kill his rivals. Knocking out ducks gives the privilege just described, after which the duck is replaced. Why it happens, no one knows, not even the boys themselves, but that it does happen we all know.
When a taw is struck the owner is "dead" for that game, and the successful player keeps on shooting till he misses. When two or more ducks are knocked out of the ring, the player is entitled to raise his score by that number, provided he shouts "Dubs" before the others cry "Fen dubs."
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