and, with a head toss, throw the hat over First Back.

If any error should be made, the one making it becomes "it." Each
player must take his turn at every change made by the leader.

There is good sport in this game, if it is played in the right spirit.
Sometimes boys with the rowdy element in them make it rough,
boisterous and even dangerous.

Let me advise: Never play any game with any boy who tries to boss and
bully weaker boys.




CHAPTER XIV

THE GAME OF CAT, WITH A GLANCE AT SOME OTHER GAMES ALL SHOULD KNOW


The game of tip-cat, although very old in Ireland, where it is said to
have originated, and in all the British Islands, where it is very
popular, is comparatively new in this country.

Up to twenty years ago "Cat," as it is generally called, was unknown
to the boys of this country. Now it is played from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the Lakes to the Gulf.

The cat is a piece of wood from four to six inches in length, and from
one to two inches in diameter in the middle. From the middle to both