ONE WAY OF DOING IT
When a farmer in Kirtonholme, near Boston, in.Lincolnshire, won a live pig for the highest skittles score at Mablethorpe Carnival, he brought his tally of pig prizes won over 20 years to 588. His record win over the last 20 years was six pigs in one nigbt, his best season 1956, when he won 75 pigs. (Skittling for a pig is a traditional pastime at country events in Britain. The winner is he who, with the fewest throws of a wooden ball, manages to knock down nine upright wooden pins at the other end of an
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28471, 28 December 1957, Page 13
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101ONE WAY OF DOING IT Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28471, 28 December 1957, Page 13
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