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Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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practice and patience to do it well. Your inquisitive reader, Leonora Parker. Nothing is known of the origin of the game ofjackstones. It existed in classical antiquity, it isknown in the Orient, and by children generally.The materials differ, but the rules of the game,as far as they are known, are everywhere aboutthe same. Of certain games—chess, playing cards,dice —the line of descent may be traced, if nottheir precise origin. As far as I know, however, there is no clue to the origin of jackstones. Andthe same is true of tops, bats and balls, and mostchildrens games. —Stewart Culin, BrooklynInstitute Museum, Brooklyn, New York. HOW LONG CAN A GOLDFISH LIVE? St. John, N. B., Canada.Dear St. Nicholas: How long can a goldfish live? Iused to have three, but two of them died. The one I havenow is well enough, but I should like to know how longit can live. Your interested reader, Angela Magee. I knew of a very highly developed goldfish thatlived for twelve years. This was the scaled
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From Goldfish Breeds. By permission of limes & Sons, Philadelphia.A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD FRINGETAIL GOLDFISH. fringetail used as an illustration in Wolfs bookon goldfish. I know of a person who claimed six-teen years for a moon telescope-fish. My motherraised some common fish twenty years ago. Wehad one of them for fifteen years, and then gaveit to a relative, who kept it alive under very poorconditions for three years more. During thesethree years a number of younger fish died in thesame aquarium. Under proper conditions I amsure it would have lived for twenty years, and Ibelieve that such a fish can be kept alive for aquarter of a century. Highly developed fish, ifthey live to become six months of age, will usuallythen live from two to four years.—William T.Innes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1912.) NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 945

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