popular game of tag.

I have seen boys, and girls, too, playing tag among the Indian tribes
of Arizona. The young and ever lightly-clad Mexicans delight in it,
and the Chinese and Japanese youngsters never grow weary of a game
needing so little in the way of equipment, and which is so easily
started, but not so easy to give up, when the spirit of the game has
taken full possession of the players.

Although so simple, there is never monotony in tag. If you don't like
one form you can try another, and there are certainly a lot to choose
from. One can have brick, wood, iron, tree or any other kind of object
tag, the principle being that so long as the pursued has his hand on
the object decided on in advance, he cannot be touched.

In what is known as "Cross Tag," the boy who starts the game tags
another, who at once starts in pursuit. Now, if another boy darts
across "its" path this second boy becomes the object of pursuit, and
so he continues until he has made a capture and is free to join the
field.

PRISONER'S BASE

One of the oldest, and I think the most general and popular of tag
games, is called now, as when I was a boy, "Prisoner's Base."

In this game the two leaders choose sides. This done, two objects--
they may be walls, trees or posts that stand some distance opposite
each other--are used as goals. Before these goals, the two armies are
drawn up in opposing lines. Then the captains, or it may be others,