{"product_id":"2940013321779","title":"THE DAUGHTER OF THE CHIEFTAIN","description":"CHAPTER ONE: OMAS, ALICE, AND LINNA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI don't suppose there is any use in trying to find out when the game of\u003cbr\u003e\"Jack Stones\" was first played. No one can tell. It certainly is a good\u003cbr\u003emany hundred years old.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll boys and girls know how to play it. There is the little rubber ball,\u003cbr\u003ewhich you toss in the air, catch up one of the odd iron prongs, without\u003cbr\u003etouching another, and while the ball is aloft; then you do the same\u003cbr\u003ewith another, and again with another, until none is left. After that\u003cbr\u003eyou seize a couple at a time, until all have been used; then three, and\u003cbr\u003efour, and so on, with other variations, to the end of the game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoubtless your fathers and mothers, if they watch you during the\u003cbr\u003eprogress of the play, will think it easy and simple. If they do,\u003cbr\u003epersuade them to try it. You will soon laugh at their failure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, when we older folks were young like you, we did not have the\u003cbr\u003eregular, scraggly bits of iron and dainty rubber ball. We played with\u003cbr\u003epieces of stones. I suspect more deftness was needed in handling them\u003cbr\u003ethan in using the new fashioned pieces. Certainly, in trials than I can\u003cbr\u003eremember, I never played the game through without a break; but then\u003cbr\u003eI was never half so handy as you are at such things: that, no doubt,\u003cbr\u003eaccounts for it.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073684914416,"sku":"2940013321779","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013321779_p0.jpg?v=1763579834","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013321779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}