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A. (?)
Eva Sulhusky Nipsy
(?) - 12:00 pm.
8/(?)/(?)
She doesn't remember the holes well.
She remembers the boys used (?) nipsies. She thinks they didn't have notches.
She played it at about 6-12 years old from 1906- 1912.
Used to ( draw, lined through) play with her mothern how mary people.
You (?) it out of the circle - you got / crack at it. Then, you (?) (it, is scribbled out) it out to where it landed - and you got 3 points. Then the other girls tried to get more points. She thinks when you ( two words are lined through)decided a stopped whoever had the most points won the game. [(?) she grew up + went to work she didn't play it anymore.
The game usually went on till " our mothers needed us for something, or the kids started to argue about something".
(Nipsy were, words lined through) Nipsy was played in the road : there were no cars up + down in those days + seldom did wagons come by.
(Two words crossed out in left margin) After got done with chores after school ( something crossed out) if it was light enough, we'd (?) her girl friends woud play - also, on Sundays, which was held as a day of rest + prayer + play(underlined).
times played( left margin)
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