goal line, while the guard replaces the stone on the rock and tries to
tag any one who has his stone in his hand, and who has not crossed the
goal line. Whoever is tagged becomes guard.




CHAPTER XV

AND NOW FOR BALL--SOME OF THE MANY GOOD GAMES THAT CAN BE PLAYED WITH
A BALL, BAT, OR RACKET


Ball in some form is played all the world over. Before Columbus came
across, the Indians of the St. Lawrence valley played a ball game with
rackets, which the French adopted and named Lacrosse. No game requires
more dexterity of foot, hand, and eye.

Certain games seem to be favored in certain lands; Cricket in England,
hand ball in Ireland, and baseball in the United States. But, then, as
we adopt and absorb peoples of all nationalities so we take all the
good things they have to offer in the way of games and, modifying them
to suit our own tastes, we make them American.

In addition to these imported games, we have, with characteristic
originality, invented a lot of games of our own, and in these the boy
takes endless delight, without bothering about their origin. On
cricket, baseball, hand ball and other great games, many books have
been written telling how to play "scientifically". Now, I am not
trying to teach scientific games. My purpose is to add something to