The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Cherry-pit

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49. CHERRY-PIT.

Julia and I did lately sit
Playing for sport at cherry-pit:[1]
She threw; I cast; and, having thrown,
I got the pit, and she the stone.

  1. ↑ Cherry-pit, a game in which cherry-stones were pitched into a small hole.
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