British and World Marbles Championship tipcat. With the score level at 6 - 6, Good Friday was the date chosen for the final event. Marbles was chosen by the girl to be the deciding game, and Giles defeated Hodge. The championships are organized by the British Marbles Board of Control (BMBC) and the version of marbles played is "Ring Taw", known in the USA as "Ringer" and in Germany as "Englisches Ringspiel". Forty-nine target marbles are grouped closely together in 6 foot diameter (1.8 metre) raised concrete ring covered with sand, each of the target marbles being a coloured glass or ceramic sphere having a
What Are Little Boys Made Of? many variant forms. For example, other versions may describe boys as being made of "snaps", "frogs", "snakes", or "slugs", rather than "snips" as above. In the earliest known versions, the first ingredient for boys is either "snips" or "snigs", the latter being a Cumbrian dialect word for a small eel. The rhyme sometimes appears as part of a larger work called "What Folks Are Made Of" or "What All the World Is Made Of". Other stanzas describe what babies, young men, young women, sailors, soldiers, nurses, fathers, mothers, old men, old women, and all folks are made of. According to