Leap Frog
Foot-an'-Half ] Hatband ] Spanish Fly ] Bad Names ]

 

 

 

Search  Inquiry Net

Back ] Home ] Up ] Next ]

Foot-an'-Half
Hatband
Spanish Fly
Bad Names

Games of Ball
Bee Messengers
Boat Plans
Dead Bugs
Choosing Up
Counting Out
Leap Frog
Swimming
Tag
Water Periscope
Circus in the Woods
Boys' Vaulting-Poles
Woodcraft Camps
Deaf Scout Jamboree 2006
Do It Yourself Camps

Scout Books

Site Contents

By Dan Beard

ohb263.gif (3346 bytes)
Fig. 263.
Leap-Frog.

When Mr. Landon Gibson was with Lieutenant Peary on his polar expedition he often had very jolly times with the hardy, good-natured, flat-faced natives of those cold climes. Among other things the explorers taught the natives the game of leap-frog, and used to have great fun in allowing the little fur-clad, laughing Esquimaux to go straddling over their bent backs. It is possible that all of those in the polar region now know how to play the game, for the sport pleased them beyond measure, and no doubt they took advantage of the first opportunity to teach it to all their neighbors.

How to Play Leap-frog

However, the Esquimaux will not read this book, and there may be some poor little chap so unfortunate as to be born and bred in one of our big cities, whose careful parents have had tutors for him in place of sending him to school, and whose life his been narrowed in various ways by his surroundings, so that he has never taken part in a game of leap-frog, or seen it played. For this unfortunate, possible boy it is well to explain that this simple game is performed in the following manner: One boy, with his back to the player, stoops down and rests his hands on his knees. This is called

"Giving a Back"

The other boy places his hands on the first boy's back and leaps over him by straddling his legs wide apart on each side like a frog. The second boy then assumes the stooping posture and the third boy leaps over the first and second, and the fourth over all three, one at a time, of course.

This goes on until there is no boy left who is not stooping. Then the first boy's back straightens up and he goes leaping over his fellows and again gives a back, while the second one follows, and so on until they are all tired and the game ceases.

Foot-an'-Half

Hatband

Spanish Fly

OHB

 

 

   

 

 


Additional Information:

Foot-an'-Half ] Hatband ] Spanish Fly ] Bad Names ]

Peer- Level Topic Links:
Games of Ball ] Bee Messengers ] Boat Plans ] Dead Bugs ] Choosing Up ] Counting Out ] [ Leap Frog ] Swimming ] Tag ] Water Periscope ] Circus in the Woods ] Boys' Vaulting-Poles ] Woodcraft Camps ] Deaf Scout Jamboree 2006 ] Do It Yourself Camps ]

Parent- Level Topic Links:
Scuba ] Skills ] Games ] Shelter ] Fire ] Night ] B-P's Camping ] Hikes ] Indian ] Spring ] Summer ] Autumn ] Winter ]

The Inquiry Net Main Topic Links:
 [Outdoor Skills]  [Patrol Method [Old-School]  [Adults [Advancement]  [Ideals]  [Leadership]  [Uniforms]

Search This Site:

Search Amazon.Com:

When you place an order with Amazon.Com using the search box below, a small referral fee is returned to The Inquiry Net to help defer the expense of keeping us online.  Thank you for your consideration!

Search:

Keywords:

Amazon Logo

 

 

Scout Books Trading Post

Dead Bugs, Blow Guns, Sharp Knives, & Snakes:
What More Could A Boy Want?

Old School Scouting:
What to Do, and How to Do It!

To Email me, replace "(at)" below with "@"
Rick(at)Kudu.Net

If you have questions about one of my 2,000 pages here, you must send me the "URL" of the page!
This "URL" is sometimes called the "Address" and it is usually found in a little box near the top of your screen.  Most URLs start with the letters "http://"

The Kudu Net is a backup "mirror" of The Inquiry Net.  

©2003, 2011 The Inquiry Net, http://inquiry.net  In addition to any Copyright still held by the original authors, the Scans, Optical Character Recognition, extensive Editing,  and HTML Coding on this Website are the property of the Webmaster.   My work may be used by individuals for non-commercial, non-web-based activities, such as Scouting, research, teaching, and personal use so long as this copyright statement and a URL to my material is included in the text
The purpose of this Website is to provide access  to hard to find, out-of-print documents.  Much of the content has been edited to be of practical use in today's world and is not intended as historical preservation.   I will be happy to provide scans of specific short passages in the original documents for people involved in academic research.  

 

Last modified: October 15, 2016.