outward.

Any player failing to catch a wand drops out of the game. With a
little practice, however, this usually resolves itself into a quick
drill rather than a game; but it is a most interesting, skillful, and
diverting play.

TRADES

_10 to 60 or more players._

_Indoors; out of doors._

This game is the boys' form of the game played by girls as "Old Woman
from the Woods." The players divide into two equal parties. One party
retires and decides on some trade or occupation, whereupon they
advance toward the second party, saying:--

"Here are some men from Botany Bay.
Got any work to give us to-day?"

The second party asks, "What can you do?" The first party answers,
"Anything." The second party says, "Set to work, then!" whereupon they
go through pantomimic motions descriptive of the occupation chosen,
such as planing, sawing, or hammering, for the carpenter; the motions
of the bricklayer, tailor, cobbler, motor-man, etc. The second party
guesses what this pantomime indicates. Should they guess correctly,
they have a turn at representing a trade. Should they fail, the first
party has another trial.

When played in a playground or gymnasium, where there is a good
running space, a successful guess should be followed by a chase of the
actors by the guessing party, any players caught before a designated
goal line is reached having to join the party of their captors. The
party wins which secures all of the players.

The following activities and occupations were shown by one
class of city boys: milking cows, grinding coffee, hanging wall
paper, traveling salesmen (displaying and measuring goods),
rooting a baseball team, Marathon race, picking cherries,
basket-ball game, oiling sewing machine, blowing up bicycle
tires, running a lawn mower, bricklaying.

TREE PARTY

_5 to 60 players._

_Out of doors._

In these days of nature study this game is especially appropriate. It
may be used on any ground or strip of woodland where there is a
variety of trees, the game consisting in identifying the trees.

A tag or card is fastened on one or more trees of each variety within
certain prescribed limits. These cards may be made as fanciful or as
rustic as desired. Birch bark is very appropriate for them, and for
either birch bark or a conventional card a pretty element may be added
by writing some appropriate quotation or verse, after the Japanese
custom. The mai