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spectacle of so-called national games, Baseball and Football in America, Handball in Ireland, Pelota in Spain, and so on; but natural expression through games has always been and probably always will be infinitely varied, and should be if the psychology of the subject is to be taken as a guide.

In the arrangement of material there has many times been a strong temptation to classify the games by their historic, geographic, psychologic, or educational interests; by the playing elements contained in them; or by several other possible methods which are of interest chiefly to the academic student; but these have each in turn been discarded in favor of the original intention of making the book preëminently a useful working manual for the player or leader of games.

[Sidenote: Varying modes of play]

The same games are found not only in many different countries and localities, but under different names and with many variations in the form of playing them. This has necessitated a method of an

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game is a variation of Zigzag Ball, and is more difficult and interesting for older players. The players are divided into two parties, best distinguished by colors—say Red and Blue. The two parties stand in even ranks alternately about five feet apart; for instance, the Red party will form ranks one and three, and will play together, facing each other, while the Blue party will form ranks two and four, which will face each other and play together.

The first player in each party has a ball which is put in play upon a signal by being tossed over the heads of the intervening rank to Number One in the other rank of his party. This player tosses the ball back to Number Two in the first rank, and so the ball is tossed in zigzag form from one player to another in ranks of the same color until it reaches the end of the line, when it is zigzagged back to the starting point in the same way. This is all done over the heads of an intervening rank of the opposite color. Simultaneously the competing team is playing in the same way.

diagram: Zigzag Overhead Toss Zigzag Overhead Toss

The party wins which first gets the ball back to the starting point.

With a large number of players the number of ranks may be increased beyond four if desired.

This game may be made more interesting and require much more alertness on the part of the players by putting more balls into play. This may be done by the starters starting a second or more balls, tossing down the line as soon as a predecessor has reached the third player. When this is done, the game is won (a) by the party whose last player at the foot of the line is first to receive the last ball; or (b) the last player may accumulate the balls and return them to the front in reverse order, the party winning which first gets its last ball back to the original starter.

INDEX GAMES FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

This grading of the games for schools indicates the lowest grade in which, on an average, a game is found to be suitable, its use being intended in any succeeding grade also. The so-called "quiet" games are not necessarily noiseless, but are distinguished from the games in which there is running or much moving around. Most of the quiet games are intended for schoolroom use, many of them for small groups that may assemble before the opening of a session.

1A. First Year (first half), (6-7 years old).

Playground Schoolroom PAGE PAGE Duck Dance, The 264 Cat and Mice 59 Itisket, Itasket 268 Changing Seats—I 63 Jack be Nimble 114 Did you ever see a Lassie? 261 Kitty White 274 Good Morning 99 Looby Loo 280 Hide the Thimble 104 Muffin Man 282 Jack be Nimble 114 Mulberry Bush 283 Looby Loo 280 Railroad Train 164 Muffin Man 282 Ringmaster 167 Mulberry Bush 283 Round and Round went the Gallant Ship 170 Railroad Train 164 Ringmaster 167 Slap Jack 178 Slap Jack 178 Snail 292 Squirrel and Nut 184 Squirrel in Trees 185 Squirrel in Trees 185

1B. First Year (second half), (6-7 years old).

Playground Schoolroom PAGE PAGE Charley over the Water 65 Circle Seat Relay 71 Crossing the Brook 74 Crossing the Brook 74 Did you ever see a Lassie? 261 Do this, Do that 75 Do this, Do that 75 Farmer in the Dell 265 Farmer in the Dell 265 Huckle, Buckle, Bean Stalk 109 Jacob and Rachel 115 Kaleidoscope 122 Kaleidoscope 122 Leaves are Green 276 Lost Child, The 130 Lost Child, The 130 Round and Round the Village 290 Round and Round the Village 290 Teacher and Class 316 Teacher and Class 316

2A. Second Year (first half), (7-8 years old).

Playground Schoolroom PAGE PAGE Automobile Race 48 Bird Catcher, The 52 Bird Catcher, The 52 Buying a Lock 58 Buying a Lock 58 Hand over Head Bean Bag 310 Cat and Rat 60 Hand Ball Drill—I (Elementary) 380 Hand Ball Drill—I (Elementary) 380 Moon and Morning Stars 133 Midnight 133 Oats, Peas, Beans 287 Oats, Peas, Beans 287 Puss in the Circle 164 Ring Call Ball 399 Wee Bologna Man 204 Wee Bologna Man 204

2B. Second Year (second half), (7-8 years old).

Playground Schoolroom PAGE PAGE Bean Bag and Basket Relay 303 Bean Bag Board 304 Bean Bag Board 304 Center Catch Ball 355 Circle Ball 356 Changing Seats 63 Drop the Handkerchief 80 Drop the Handkerchief 80 Flowers and the Wind, The 87 Frog in the Middle 96 Fox and Squirrel 93 Hunting 267 Let the Feet go Tramp 276 Letting out the Doves 129 Letting out the Doves 129 London Bridge 278 London Bridge 278 Simon Says 235

3A. Third Year (first half), (8-9 years old).

Playground Schoolroom PAGE PAGE Bean Bag Circle Toss 305 Bean Bag Circle Toss 305 Bean Bag Ring Throw 306 Bean Bag Ring Throw 306 Center Base 354 Draw a Bucket of Water 263 Draw a Bucket of Water 263 Have you seen my Sheep? 102 Have you seen my Sheep? 102 Hill Dill 105 Hopping Relay Race 106 Hopping Relay Race 106 I say, "Stoop!" 113 I say, "Stoop!" 113 Nuts in May 285 Line Ball 384 Puss in a Corner 163 Puss in a Corner 163 Single Relay Race 175 Tommy Tiddler's Ground 197 Water Sprite 203

3B. Third Year (second half), (8-9 years old).

Playground Schoolroom PAGE PAGE Bean Bag Box 305 Bean Bag Box 305 Ball Chase 324 Call Ball 338 Chinese Chicken 68 Chinese Chicken 68 Dodgeball (Informal) 363 Follow Chase 88 Flower Match 220 Follow the Leader 89 Follow the Leader 89 Fox Trail, Single Rim 95 Horns 223 Jumping Rope—I 118 Lame Fox and Chickens 124 Line Zigzag 421 Line Zigzag 421 Prisoner's Base—I 157 Old Man Tag 142 Shadow Tag 173 Shuttle Relay 173 Schoolroom Tag 172 Stoop Tag 190 Tag the Wall Relay 192 Weathercock 204 Who goes round my Stone Wall? 206

4A. Fourth Year (first half), (9-10 years old).

Playground Schoolroom PAGE PAGE All-up Relay 45 All-up Relay 45 Animal Chase 46 Arch Ball 321 Arch Ball 321 Bag Pile 303 Bag Pile 303 Corner Spry 360 Corner Spry 360 Farmer is Coming, The 85 Guess Who 100 Guess Who 100 Home Tag 106 Naughts and Crosses 229 Hunt the Fox 110 Slap Catch 178 Roley Poley 399 Slap Catch 178 Target Toss 315 Stealing Sticks 188 Target Toss 315 Vaulting Seats 202

4B. Fourth Year (second half), (9-10 years old).

Playground Schoolroom PAGE PAGE Bear in the Pit 50 Balloon Ball 325 Bunch of Ivy 57 Blackboard Relay 53 Captain Ball—II or III 341-4 Catch of Fish 61 Catch the Cane 62 Catch the Cane 62 Criss-cross Goal 307 Criss-cross Goal 307 Cross Tag 75 Home Run 384 High Windows 104 Hunt, The 110 Leaf by Leaf 225 Leapfrog Race 129 Numbers Change

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