e affords opportunity for a great deal of sport through the
making of false starts and the daring approach to the one who is It,
who, in turn, may make sudden and unexpected sorties in different
directions.

Like Iron Tag, this game is very ancient, and has evidently
come from an old superstition that to touch iron or some other
particular substance gave immunity from the spell of evil
spirits.

WRESTLING

(See "_Contests for Two_" under "Feats and Forfeits.")

YARDS OFF

_3 to 30 or more players._

_Out of doors._

This is a form of I Spy or Hide and Seek, and seems indigenous
to New York. All players properly caught by the spy become
prisoners, but may be freed in a prescribed way. The procedure
which gives time for hiding is also distinctive.

Two players are chosen, one to be It and one for stick thrower. All
the players stand grouped around a goal, and the stick thrower throws
a stick as far away from the goal as he can. As soon as the stick
touches the ground, all of the players, including the thrower, but not
the one who is It, scatter and hide. The one who is It must walk to
the stick (never run), take it up, bring it back, and stand it up,
resting against the goal. He then starts to hunt for the hidden
players. He must run back and touch the goal for any player whom he
discovers, saying, "One, two, three, for--!" naming the player. Any
one caught in this way becomes a prisoner at the goal. Any player who
has not been detected by the spy may run in to the goal at any time
and throw the stick away, whereby all of the prisoners, _i.e._ those
who have been spied and previously caught, become free and hide again.
Whenever this freeing of prisoners happens, the spy must return to the
goal, walk to the stick, pick it up, walk back with it to the goal
again, and go on with the play as before. This continues until the spy
has touched the goal for all of the players, though they need not all
be prisoners at once. Any player spied who reaches the goal before the
spy, is thereafter free; _i.e._ out of the game. The last one caught
becomes spy for the next game.

QUIET GAMES

QUIET GAMES

NOTE.--The games in this division are not necessarily noiseless
or lacking in movement; but are distinguished from the active
games largely by the lack of chasing or other vigorous
exercise.

AUTHOR'S INITIALS

_2 to 60 players._