I was the school marble shooting champ in sixth grade and we played all kinds of marble games including the ones mentioned. The rules were a little different. We were forbidden from playing "keeps" but we did anyway. Just before I went into seventh grade (Junior High) I thought I had reached manhood and decided to give all my marbles away. I had a cardboard box with I don't know how many marbles in it, I stopped counting at 13,000. It was so heavy I could barely lift it. Anyway I took it to school and at recess I threw them out on the school ground and watched the kids scramble for them. I nearly cause a recess riot and I had to go to the principals office. He asked me how I got all those marbles and I told him I won them. I then got a stern lecture on the evils of gambling and he kept what was left of my box of marbles. He told me my Dad would have to come in to get them back, but I was afraid to tell Dad I was in the principals office, so I guess he kept them? It made me wonder what was worse, gambling or stealing. I think stealing to this day.
Monty
Oh, I plum forgot what this post was about. We just called them big marbles and didn't particularly like them because they were too big and awkward to use as shooters in our small hands. M
