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AUNT SALLY

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 922 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . In See also:France the game is popular under the name jeu de See also:massacre . In a variation of the pastime the See also: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 . In See also:case of a See also:hit a second shy is allowed, or a small See also:prize is given .

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