Leap-Frog
This is an excellent game of agility, and very simple. It consists of any number of players; but from six to eight is the most convenient number. Having by agreement or lots determined who shall give the first "back," one player so selected places himself in position, with his head inclined and his shoulders elevated, and his hands resting on his knees, at ten yards' distance from the other players; one of whom immediately runs and leaps over him,--having made his leap, he sets a back at the same distance forward from the boy over whom he has just leaped. The third boy leaps over the first and second boy, and sets a "back" beyond the second; and the fourth boy leaps over the first, second, and third, and sets a "back" beyond the third, and so on till the players are out. The game may continue for any length of time, and generally lasts till the players are tired; but the proper rule should be, that all who do not go clean over should be out. Those who "make backs" should stand perfectly stiff and firm; and those who "make leaps" should not rest in their flight heavily upon the shoulders of their playmates, so as to throw them down, which is not fair play.