Add to ORKGbutton nEvery boy had a "button-bag" which he always carried to school, and as soon as recess or dinner-hour or after-scaool rolled around groups of boys made for the pitching ground.DNE-cit JH 10/71[-]26[-]Used INot used2Not used[see 'pitching buttons']Card is stamped DNE-cit, but its contents are not used
malver nWhen we were youngsters we used to go pitchin buttons . You'd have a big jar of all colored...
boy n"Lanigans Ball": Myself of course got free invitation / For all the nice boys and girls to a...
fife railwood around the mast holding the pinswood around the mast holding the pinsDNE-citNot usedNo...
pitch vThe signs of Spring in Heart's content when I was a boy were girls 'skipping rope' and boys...
pitch vAnother thing when we were goin' to school we used to. . .what we used to call pitchin' the...
clunksI remember having hundreds of assorted buttons at one time. The most prized ones were "brass"...
nagThe signs of Spring in Heart's Content when I was a boy were girls 'skipping rope" and boys "_pi...
nagThe signs of Spring in Heart's Content when I was a boy were girls 'skipping rope" and boys "_pi...
pitch vI was down the beach, a little boy in me bare feet pitching buttons, five or six of us.GMS ...
dodger nThe term used for big buttons, usually on men's overcoats, was 'dodgers.' [see 'clunks'...
pitch v"Make a mutt [sic] in ground with heel. Stand at a distance from the hole and pitch the but...
buck vFor several weeks before November 5, the boys all over town would go out at night for the pu...
scull. . . he tied together a bundle of boughs and proceeded to _lug or scull_ (carry) it home.DNE-...
barleyAn' then there was barl* over. That was for boys.That was similar to a hide-an'-seek game.si...
magPitching Buttons was a game that was played by boys from age 8 to 14; usually in the Spring. All ...
malver nWhen we were youngsters we used to go pitchin buttons . You'd have a big jar of all colored...
boy n"Lanigans Ball": Myself of course got free invitation / For all the nice boys and girls to a...
fife railwood around the mast holding the pinswood around the mast holding the pinsDNE-citNot usedNo...
pitch vThe signs of Spring in Heart's content when I was a boy were girls 'skipping rope' and boys...
pitch vAnother thing when we were goin' to school we used to. . .what we used to call pitchin' the...
clunksI remember having hundreds of assorted buttons at one time. The most prized ones were "brass"...
nagThe signs of Spring in Heart's Content when I was a boy were girls 'skipping rope" and boys "_pi...
nagThe signs of Spring in Heart's Content when I was a boy were girls 'skipping rope" and boys "_pi...
pitch vI was down the beach, a little boy in me bare feet pitching buttons, five or six of us.GMS ...
dodger nThe term used for big buttons, usually on men's overcoats, was 'dodgers.' [see 'clunks'...
pitch v"Make a mutt [sic] in ground with heel. Stand at a distance from the hole and pitch the but...
buck vFor several weeks before November 5, the boys all over town would go out at night for the pu...
scull. . . he tied together a bundle of boughs and proceeded to _lug or scull_ (carry) it home.DNE-...
barleyAn' then there was barl* over. That was for boys.That was similar to a hide-an'-seek game.si...
magPitching Buttons was a game that was played by boys from age 8 to 14; usually in the Spring. All ...
malver nWhen we were youngsters we used to go pitchin buttons . You'd have a big jar of all colored...
boy n"Lanigans Ball": Myself of course got free invitation / For all the nice boys and girls to a...
fife railwood around the mast holding the pinswood around the mast holding the pinsDNE-citNot usedNo...