HICKLING in the 1920s:
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Marbles was a slower game and was only for those who left early for school. They came out again at lunch break and playtimes - and the playground would be pockmarked with marble holes made by a boy with heel irons on his boots. He would grind out a hole simply by sticking his heel on the ground and swinging round two or three times.
For playing marbles on the way to school one did not need a hole, only a partner. One would cast a marble along the road edge, the other would try to hit it with his marble and if he did he claimed it and the marble had to be replaced y the other player.
As many as four children could play at the hole game using two or three marbles each. All would cast at the hole in turn and the one with the most in or nearest would then cast the lot. The scoring was: One in - shove ’em in (or as many as you could), Two in - Rotten - as you then missed the “Go”, Three in goes Again and Four in Takes All.
