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Book Title: "A Glimpse Of The Past"

Anty-Over

   There would be two teams one on each side of a building.  One side would 
have a ball and throw it over and if anybody caught it he would run around the 
building and try to hit someone with the ball and if he did that person was out 
and he would go to the other side.  This went on until one side was depleted.
   The balls were most times home made some being of yarn or string.  Sometimes 
a small hard ball was used and string tightly wound around it.


Base
   
   Any number of people can play this game.  They are divided into two equal 
teams and each team is assigned to a base.  The two bases face each other 
twenty or thirty feet apart and long enough so that each player can touch the 
base simultaneously.  The object of the game is to circle the opponent's base 
and return "home" without being caught and tagged out by one of the opponents.  
Play continues until all the players on one side are out.
   The rule to remember is that if a player has touched his base since you left 
yours, he can tag you out unless you beat him back to your base or he is 
intercepted and chased away or tagged out by one of your teammates.


Crack The Whip

   Everyone would join hands and form a long line with the largest man in front 
as the anchorman, and the smallest man on the end.  Then everyone would run 
together in a curved line and at some point the anchorman would stop and the 
rest of the line would keep going around in a curve just like cracking a whip.  
If one went fast enough, that little one on the end would almost be airborne 
when he came around.  That one on the end really fared rough!


Devil in the Promised Land

   This was usually played around a ditch or branch.  There would be a group on 
one side of the branch and one guy on the other side and he was the devil.  Now 
everyone had to cross the branch and go around him and jump the branch back.  
If he caught you before you made the run around him you had to go to the 
devil's side.


Dodge Ball

   A group would bunch up in a circle and one person would get on each side of 
the circle and roll a rubber ball through the center of the circle and try to 
hit the people in the circle.  The people in the circle tried to didge the 
ball, but when a person was hit, he had to go out and sit down.  The game was 
over when everyone was out.


Drop the Handkerchief

   Children would form a large ring with everyone facing into the middle, and 
one would be out of the ring.  The one out of the ring would go around and drop 
the handkerchief behind someone.  When he dropped the handkerchief he would 
take off to running.  The one it was dropped behind was to pick up the 
handkerchief and take after the one who had dropped it.  If he caught the one 
that had dropped the handkerchief, that one had to go to the middle.  If he 
didn't catch the one that had dropped the handkerchief before that one got back 
to his place in the circle, then that man had to keep the handkerchief and 
start a new game.  To get out of the middle you had to watch the handkerchief 
and when it was dropped he tried to grab it first and if he did then the one it 
was dropped behind traded places with you.


Up set the Fruit Basket

   Everyone sits on chairs in a circle.  Someone gives each person the name of 
a fruit; two or three people shuld have the same fruit.  One person stands in 
the middle without a chair.  He calls out one or two frits at a time.  When 
they call out your fruit you try to change places without the one in the middle 
getting a chair.  the one left standing calls out names next.  If they call "up 
set the fruit basket", everyone has to change places.


Hopscotch

   This game is played outdoors on a court or grid of sequentially numbered 
squares drawn with a stick in dirt or with chalk on a sidewalk.  Simply 
defined, hopscotch is a progressive game.  The first player tosses a marker (a 
small rock, a glass shard or a stick for example) into the first square, then 
hops on one foot over that square into number two and on through all the 
squares, using both feet in side-by-side squares, to the end of the grid.  some 
grids provide a rest square at the end, in which the player may put down both 
feet, others simply require turning around on the hop foot before starting 
back.  When the player reaches the number two square on returning, she picks up 
the marker and hops over number one to the outside.  The player must not skip 
any square other than the one containing the marker, step on any lines, put 
down both feet in a hop square, or if she stumbles, touches the ground with the 
hands then her turn is over.  If her turn is over she then starts over in the 
same square at her next turn.  If the process is successful, then that player 
may have another turn and begins by tossing the marker into the number two 
square and so forth.  The player's marker is left in that square and the next 
person has to hop over it.  The first player to complete tossing into and 
hopping through all the squares is the winner.  The game may be extended by 
coming from the last square back down to number one.


Jumping Jack

   This was a simple game; you would draw a line on the ground and then just 
see who could jump the farthest.  Whoever did won.


Kitty Wants a Corner

   One person is Kitty and he goes around to everybody in a circle.  He meows 
and pats you and tries to get you to laugh.  If someone can not control his or 
her emotions and smiles or laughs he has to become "Kitty".


Pleased or Displease

   To play this you get a whole bunch of people setting around and one 
says, "Are you pleased or displeased?"  If you did not have anything on your 
mind for someone to do, you would then say, "I'm pleased."
   Then the next person was asked, and she might say, "I'm displeased."  And 
you would then say, "What would it take to please you?"  Well, she could 
say, "for Mae to get up and walk around the house barefoot".  Sometimes if 
there was boys and girls playing one might say they would like for a certain 
boy or girl to kiss a certain person.


Ring Around the Mulberry Bush

  You'd make a big ring with one person on the outside and everyone in th ring 
facing in.  That person on the outside would make three rounds around the ring 
and then tap someone and those two would race around the ring to see who could 
get back to that empty place first.  The one who lost had to be the one on the 
outside of the ring for the next round.

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