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Boys and their pastimes are swayed by periodic forces inscrutable to man: so that tops and marbles reappear in their due season, regular like the sun and moon; and the harmless art of knucklebones has seen the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the United States.

* An excerpt from 'Across the Plains.'

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