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AUNT SALLY , the See also: English name for a See also: game popular at fairs, See also: race-courses and summer resorts
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It consists in throwing hard balls, of See also: wood or See also: leather-covered See also: yarn, at puppets dressed to represent different characters, originally a See also: grotesque See also: female figure called " Aunt Sally," with the See also: object of smashing a See also: clay See also: pipe which is inserted either in the mouth or forehead of the puppet
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In See also: France the game is popular under the name jeu de See also: massacre
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In a variation of the pastime the mark consists of a living See also: person's See also: head thrust through a hole in a See also: sheet of See also: canvas
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In See also: case of a See also: hit a second shy is allowed, or a small prize is given
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