A man selling a horse was asked if it was a first thrower.

The men started with a halfpenny pool, and the first thrower cast three plain surfaces.

He extracts the twigs and darts them back at the first thrower, who catches them similarly.

Either throw (first ) or let us be the first throwers?

"Double four," cried the first thrower.

(To understand the next, we must premise that a horse with his first teeth was called by the Greeks "a first thrower.")