ng of a game by such means, and pictorial
illustration has been used where diagrams were inadequate. The music
for all singing games is given with full accompaniment. Suggestions
for the teaching and conduct of games are given, with directions for
floor formations. Means of counting out and choosing sides and players
are described, and one section is devoted to forfeits.

Under each of the main divisions chosen--miscellaneous active games,
quiet games, singing games, bean-bag games, and ball games--the
material has been arranged in alphabetic order to facilitate ready
reference, although a general alphabetic index is appended. In short,
the book aims to bring together all related material and every
available device for making it readily accessible and easily
understood.

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[Sidenote: Original research]

SOURCES AND NATURE OF MATERIAL.--The material in this volume, aside
from that accumulated through a long experience in the teaching and
supervision of games, has been collected through (1) special original
research, and (2) bibliographical research. The original research has
been made among the foreign population of New York City, where
practically the entire world is accessible, and in other sections of
the United States. This has resulted in some entirely new games that
the writer has not found elsewhere in print. From among these may be
mentioned the Greek Pebble Chase, the Russian Hole Ball, the Scotch
Keep Moving, the Danish Slipper Slap, and, from our own country, among
others, Chickadee-dee from Long Island, and Hip from New Jersey.
Entirely new ways of playing games previously recorded have been
found, amounting not merely to a variation but to a wholly new form.
Such is the method here given for playing Babylon, a form gathered
from two different Scotch sources. Another example is the game of
Wolf, for which additional features have been found that add greatly
to its playing value, especially the rule whereby the wolf, when
discovered by the sheep who are hunting for him, shall take a jump
toward the sheep before his chase after them begins; or, should he
discover them first, the requirement that they take three steps toward
him before the chase begins. Such points add greatly to the sport of a
game, and with the spoken formulas that accompany them form a rich
find for both student and player.

One may not well refer to the original research without mention of the
ch