and that game would be PIT.

We loved that as kids

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_(game)

Kirk in Half Moon Bay, CA, who's work list grows hourly with the extended
power outages, wind and rain to deal with.



On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 12:54 PM Richard Wilson <
yorkshireman@y...> wrote:

>
> We used to have a card game which involved cards with all manner of grain
> merchant goods, and doing a lot of shouting and trading to corner the
> market in ‘wheat’ or ‘corn’ or ‘barley’ or whatever.  Now, I knew what corn
> is, because we had 3 farmers in the family, and corn is the generic English
> name for wheat.
> So it was a surprise when Brer Rabbit used to fool around with corn, and
> it wasn’t wheat.
>
>
>


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Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA