Chapter III: Part I: Easy Games Without Toys

OUTDOOR.

PAGE
Hop, Step, and Jump 1
Hopping on the Bottle 2
Hop-Scotch 2
French and English 3
Drawing the Oven 4
I Spy 4
Pitch-Stone 3
Duck-Stone 5
Prisoner’s Base, or Prison Bars 5
Fox 7
Baste the Bear 7
Leap-Frog 8
Fly the Garter 8
Spanish Fly 9
Touch 10
Touch-Wood and Touch-Iron 10
Buck, Buck, how many Horns do I hold up? 10
Warning 10
Follow my Leader 11
The Fugleman 11
Hare and Hounds 11
Steeple Chase 13
Duck and Drake 13
Simon Says 14
King of the Castle 14
Battle for the Banner 14
Snow-Balls 15
Snow Castle 16
Snow Giant 17
Jack! Jack! show a Light! 18
Jingling 19
Jump little Nag-tail! 19
Jumping Rope 20
My Grandmother’s Clock 20
Rushing Bases 21
See-saw 21
Thread the Needle 22
Tom Tiddler’s Ground 22
Two to One 22
Walk, Moon, Walk! 22
Want a day’s work? 23
Will you List? 23
Whoop! 24
High Barbaree! 24
Bull in the Ring 24
Cock Fight 25
Dropping the Handkerchief 25

INDOOR.

Blind Man’s Buff 26
Bob-Cherry 26
Buff 27
Concert 27
Consequences 28
Cross Questions & Crooked Answers 28
Dumb Motions 29
Family Coach 29
Frog in the Middle 30
The Four Elements 31
Hand 31
Hot Boiled Beans 32
Hot Cockles 32
How? Where? and When? 32
Hunt the Slipper 33
Hunt the Ring 33
Hunt the Whistle 33
Magic Music 34
Post 34
Proverbs 35
Puss in the Corner 36
Red-Cap and Black-Cap 36
Shadow Buff 37
Slate Games 37
Trades 40
Trussed Fowls 40
The Two Hats 40
What is my Thought like? 41

EASY GAMES WITH TOYS.

OUTDOOR.

BALLS 43
Catch Ball 43
Doutee-Stool 43
Egg-Hat 44
Feeder 44
Monday, Tuesday 45
Nine-Holes 46
Northern Spell 46
Rounders 46
Sevens 48
Stool-Ball 48
Trap, Bat, and Ball 48

HOOPS 49
The Hoop 50
Encounters 50
Hoop Race 51
Posting 51
Tournament 52
Turnpike 52

KITES 53
How to make a Kite 53
Flying the Kite 54
Messengers 55
Calico Kites 55
Fancy Kites 55

MARBLES 57
Bounce Eye 58
Conqueror 58
Die Shot 58
Eggs in the Bush 59
Increase Pound 59
Knock out, or Lag out 59
Long Taw 60
Nine-Holes, or Bridge Board 60
Odd or Even 61
Picking the Plums 61
The Pyramid 61
Ring Taw 61
Spans and Snops, and Bounce About 62
Teetotum Shot 62
Three-Holes 62
Tipshares, or Handers 63

TOPS 64
The Humming-top 64
Peg-top 65
Spanish Peg-top 65
The Whip-top 65
Chip-stone 66
Peg-in-the-Ring 66

MISCELLANEOUS TOYS 68
The Apple Mill 68
Aunt Sally 68
Baton 69
Cat 69
Cat and Mouse 70
Knock-’em-down 71
Pea-shooters 71
Quoits 71
Nine-pins 72
Skittles 72
Dutch-pins 73
Throwing the Hammer 73
The Boomerang 74
The Skip-jack, or Jump-jack 74
The Sling 74
Walking on Stilts 76
The Sucker 76

INDOOR.

Battledore and Shuttlecock 78
Bandilor 79
Cup and Ball 79
The Cutwater 79
Fox and Geese 80
Goose 81
Head, Body, and Legs 81
Knuckle-bones 82
Merelles, or Nine Men’s Morris 83
Paper Dart 83
The Popgun 84
Push-pin 84
Schimmel 84
Spelicans 86