In Scotland the opposing teams consisted of bachelors and married mon. On Shrove Tuesday the game lasted from two o'clock in the afternoon until sunset. One of these played the Hustiine like cattle herded in a pony, TUaok on and shout, Woie'two and twenty hirerings hace ball about. games is described by an ey witness as follows:
"The game was this: The married men were to hang. the ball, that is, to place it three times into a small hole on the moor. On the ether hand the bachelors had to drown the ball; in other words, to dip it three times in a deep place in the river, The party who effect ed either of these objects won the game. If neither side won by sun-sect the ball was cut into equal parts,
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