The Play of Man

by Karl Groos

[409] K. Weinhold, Altnordisches Leben, p. 315.

[410] Colozza, op. cit., p. 85.

[411] Grosse, Die Anfänge der Kunst, p. 231.

[412] Weinhold, Altnordisches Leben, pp. 462, 463.

[413] Many of the new games for children which appear every year are simply modifications of backgammon.

[414] When it is known in advance that the chances are unequal it is common to make the stakes so as well, sometimes ten to one, or a cow to a hen, etc.

[415] J. Schaller, p. 269.

[416] Schuster, op. cit., p. 9.

[417] A. Seidel, Geschichten und Lieder der Africaner, p. 162. See Globus, vol. lxvii (1895), p. 387.

[418] The two Englishmen who placed two snails on a table and bet high stakes on which would reach the other side of it first furnish a fine instance of this kind. M. Schuster, Das Spiel, p. 216. The English have always been and especially at the beginning of this century famous for their bets.