Ancient civilizations told time at night by the passage of stars.

The commonest method of playing the game, by the smaller boys of the village, was with a sendstick, or pommel, and a wooden spell with a hole in one end to place the knur, which, when struck tip-cat like at the other end, threw the knur up to be struck at.

Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…

Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.