CHAPTER XXX

A PAPER CHASE

FUN! Why what can compare with it? The clear frosty air is full of life, the blood is rushing tumultuously through your veins and your feet are tingling to be off on the chase. It is healthful, it is inspiring, it is glorious fun. You must think, too, in order to be successful either as hare or hound, for the object of each is to outwit the other, and Paper Chase is a game that requires the use of brains as well as muscle.

The Hares and Hounds

compose the party. Two hares and as many hounds as you will, the more the merrier. Each hare must carry a bag filled with paper cut into small strips. The hounds carry only the weight of their responsibility to entrap and catch the hares.

The Game

is a country game, of course. Who would think of the hares and hounds dashing in a mad run through the streets of town or village. And it is a noisy game with the Kee-ooi! Kee-ooi! of the fleeing hares, and answering La-ha-hoo, La-ha-hoo! of the pursuing hounds.

Select a convenient club-house or residence for the meet and let there be two hares and at least six hounds.

The first thing to be decided upon is the distance of the run, which should not be too great, especially for beginners. The next is the agreement between the hares upon a general plan to be pursued in their tactics, which must be kept secret from the hounds.

The morning hours are best for the game, and a hearty appetite for lunch, or the hunt-breakfast, it might be called, is the result.

At a Given Time

let the hares start off together, scattering their bits of paper as they go, to be followed ten or fifteen minutes later by the hounds, who are led by the paper on the tracks of the hares.

The object of the hares is so to scatter the paper in their cross-country run as to lead the hounds on

A False Scent.

This is sometimes done by the hares making a detour into a field, doubling back on their tracks and running in quite another direction. Or they may provide a number of false scents leading from one point.

To be sure all this uses up much precious time, but the compensation lies in mystifying and delaying the hounds, each of whom must decide for herself which trail is the most likely to prove the one the hares have really taken.

When

The Hares Are Off

and the fifteen minutes up, the hounds must start in pursuit. Their object is to head off and catch the hares before they can cover the given distance and again reach the place of meeting. A hound must not only come in sight of a hare but must touch her in order to make a catch. Each player in the paper chase acts for herself, and if she succeeds in catching a hare she wins the honors. And a hare reaching home without being caught wins great honor. The hares keep together, but the hounds may scatter at will, though no girl should risk going too far alone.

From time to time the hares must give their cry Kee-ooi! Kee-ooi! that the hounds may not go too far astray, and the hounds reply with their La-ha-hoo! to let the hares know they are on their tracks.

Over Fences, Across Brooks,

taking to the cover of the woods, or speeding along the roads, it matters little how you get there, the object is to reach the point you have decided upon over the shortest route and in the least possible time.

This is the fun of it, the wild scramble over all obstacles and the exultant moment when, if a hound, you have run down the hares or, if a hare, you outwit the hounds and make the home-run in safety. The game requires good generalship on both sides, quick thought and ready decision.

How to Dress.

A short skirt, loose, stout walking shoes, and a sweater make the most comfortable costume. Wraps will be found in the way and uncomfortably warm, and you cannot run very well in overshoes. If your feet get wet keep on running and you will not take cold, but have a change of foot-wear ready that you may replace wet shoes and stockings with dry ones as soon as you reach the house. Also throw a wrap over you upon your return so that you may not cool off too suddenly after your long run.

Light bags for the hares to carry may be made of cotton cloth with straps of the same to throw over the shoulder.

Good health, good-fellowship, good-nature, and fair play are the requisites for the complete enjoyment of this most exhilarating of all games.

INDEX

A

Adjusting warp, 19 African hut, 306 Alligators, clay, 193 Amusements, Mayday, 237 Andirons, 142 Anemones, 296 Angling, Easter, 231 Animals, tissue-paper, 75 Apple, Indian, 209 Apple, Jap, 211 Apple-seeds, 261 Apple tower, 214 Apple toys, 206 Arch, door, 177 Armor, alligator, 197 Arrow-heads, 122 Arrow-shaft, 123 Arrows for Mayday, 238 Assumption, Cathedral of, 175

B

Baby alligators, 193 Bag, school, 31 Bags, fortune, 262 Ball game, May, 251 Ball of twine, 27 Banana, clay, 201 Band, spinning-wheel, 8 To adjust, 9 Banners, Japanese fish, 171 Barrel-hoop, 62 Basket of shavings, 36 Basket, to make wood, 62 Basket, to weave splint, 68 Baskets as moulds, 187 Baskets, May, 248 Beads, 182 Bed, Japanese, 168 Beds, blankets for dolls', 26 Bell and ball game, 251 Bellows, 153 Binding basket edges, 40 Binding off, 71 "Bird Wish," 337 Birds, tissue-paper, 75, 93 Birds, to feed, 267 Bird's head, finger, 277 Birthday festivals, 170 Blackbirds, finger, 280 Blanket, Navajo, 20, 125 Doll's bed, 26 Blood root, 296 Blouse, Russian, 181 Boats, rose petals, 320 Body, alligator, 196 Bonnet, war, 116 Bonnet-wire stem, 95 Boots, Russian, 182 Bouquet-holder, 58 Bow, 124 Bow case, 124 Bowls, 292 Bows for Mayday amusements, 237 Breakfast, Japan, 168 Broom, show, 172 "Build the Tower," 282 Butt, rifle, 152 Button-mould, 171

C

Calumet, 119 Calyx, tissue-paper, 96 Camp-fire, 342 Cap, rose petal, 328 Card-board, pot hooks of, 145 Carnation-pink, 86, 87 Case, handkerchief, 41 Cathedral of Assumption, 176 "Chai," Russian, 181 Chamois skin gown, 125 Chase, paper, 345 Chicken, tissue-paper, 75 Chieftain's shield, 120 Children, talking, 268 Chimney samovar, 184 "Chin Chopper Chin," 282 Churn, 160 Circle, to cut a, 88 Clay, 187 Clay alligators, 193 Cleaning for spinning-wheel, 8 Cloak, old colonial, 155 Cloth, magic, 264 Clothes-line, possibilities of, 162 Clover, four-leaved, 260 Coat of armor, alligator, 197 Coiled pottery, 187 Colonial kitchen, toy, 133 Colorless vases, 292 Combinations, flower, 291 Common grasses, 53 Conventional designs, 330 Cork churn lid, 160 Counter, store, 308 Cradle, papoose, 130 Crane, 137 Crazy bull, 116 Crosses, paper, 178 Crowding, flower, 290 Cupola, Russian cathedral, 178 Curtain-bee frolic, 48 Curtain, sash, 34 Curtains, primitive reed, 43

D

Daffodil, tissue-paper, 99 Dance, egg, 230 Dasher, churn, 160 "Deer," 338 Design, ornamental, 67 Designs, conventional, 330 Dinner, straw ride, 339 Distaff, 7 Doll, Japanese, 174 Doll, Russian, 180 Dolls' beds, blankets for, 26 Dolls, feast of, 172 Dolls' hammock, 56 Dolls, new race of, 103 Door-way, Russian cathedral, 177 Door-way screens, 149 Dress, Mary's, 217 Dress, May-pole to, 252 Dress, Miss Muffet's, 108 Dress, paper-chase, 348 Dutch windmill, 214

E

Eagle feather of paper, 121 Easter egg games, 227 Edges, basket, 40 Egg games, 227 Elephant, tissue-paper, 83 Encampment, Indian, 111 End-pieces, 63

F

Face, Miss Muffet's, 106 False scent, 347 Faucet, samovar, 182 Feast of dolls, 172 Feather, eagle paper, 121 Feathers, for goose, 221 Fence, paper, 168 Fenced in garden, 168 Ferns, 297 Festivals, Japanese, 169 Finger church, 275 Finger plays, 273 Finger steeple, 275 Fire, tissue-paper, 114 Fireplace, 138 Fish, Japanese paper, 170 Five little pigs, 285 Flax, 10 Flintlock rifle, 151 Floors, Japan paper house, 167 Floral tent, 307 Florida playhouse, 298 Floor, colonial kitchen, 136 Flower lifter, 294 Flowers, to arrange, 289 Folks, finger plays for little, 273 Food, alligator, 198 Fortune bags, 262 Four-leaved clover, 260 Fresh flowers, to arrange, 289 Fringe, to make hammock, 30 Frog, jumping, 264 Frolic, curtain-bee, 48 Frolic with roses, 320 Funny little apple toys, 206

G

Games, egg, 227 Garden, fenced in, 168 Garden, rose girls, 325 Germantown wool for Navajo blanket, 20 Ghost writing, 259 Girl, rose, 323 Gold nuggets, 254 Good Indian, 115 Goose, Mother Goose's, 220 Gown, chamois skin, 125 Grass, napkin ring, 59 Grasses, common, 53 Grasshopper house, 53 Green leaf boat, 322 Green leaves, 291 Groceries, 312 Gun, flintlock, 151

H

Hallowe'en revels, 259 Hammock, dolls', 56 Handkerchief case, 41 Handle, basket, 40 Handle, churn, 160 Hares, 345 Hut, African, 306 Hat, witch's, 257 Head, Washington, 202 Headdress, Indian, 116 Heddles, how to make loom, 17 Hepaticas, 296 Hibiscus, 86 Holder, bouquet, 58 Home-like rag rug, 154 Home-made loom, weaving on, 15 Hooks, pot, 145 Hounds, 345 Houses, Japan paper, 162 House, grasshopper, 53 Hub, spinning-wheel, 149

I

Indian apple, 209 Indian Encampment, 111 Indian pot, 143 Indian travois, 118

J

Jap apple, 210 Japan, paper houses of, 162 Japanese doll, 174 Japanese paper, 162 Japanese umbrella, 173 Jars, flower, 293 Jumping frog, 264

K

Kago, 172 Keeping store, 308 King, May, 245 Kitchen, toy colonial, 133 Kneading clay, 187 Knitting needle, gun-barrel, 152 "Knives and Forks," "Here are my Mother's," 279 Koi, Japanese, 171 Kremlin, 175

L

Lake, open air, 323 Lamb, Mary's, 219 Lanterns, paper, 167 Leather boots, 181 Leaves, green, 291 Leaves, tissue-paper, 193 Legs, alligator, 198 Lifter, flower, 294 Lifting for Pasch eggs, 227 Line, clothes, 62 Lingerie, Miss Muffet's, 107 Little apple toys, 206 Little bellows, 153 Little Miss Muffet, 103 Little paper houses, 162 Little pigs, famous five, 285 Loom, weaving on home-made, 15

M

Magic cloth, 264 Marvel pictures, 215 Mary, 215 Material, reed curtain, 43 Mats, table, 41 May baskets, 248 Mayday amusements, 237 May-pole, 252 Menagerie, game of, 343 Miniature cathedral, 176 Miss Muffet, tissue-paper, 103 Moccasins, 117 Modelling in tissue-paper, 75 Money, store, 314 Morning glory, tissue-paper, 86, 94 Mother Goose's goose, 220 Mother's knives and forks, 280

N

Navajo blanket, 20 Navajo blankets, 125 Nail, staple, 46 Napkin-ring, grass, 59 Nasturtiums, 290 Nature study, tissue-paper, 86 Netting, rope, 65 Nuggets, gold, 254

O

Odd things in Russia, 175 Odd utensils, 144 Odd colonial clock, 155 Old-fashioned flintlock rifle, 151 Old oaken bucket, 250 Open air lake, 323 Open air play houses, 298 Ornamental design, 67 Oven, 139

P

Paint, for Japan houses, 165 Painting, rose petals for, 328 Paper chase, 345 Paper houses of Japan, 162 Paper lanterns, 167 Paper modelling, in tissue, 75 Paper, store wrapping, 313 Papoose, 130 Parker, Thankful, 146 Party, rose girls, 326 Pasch eggs, 227 Pattern, blanket, 24 "Peel," 144 Pet turtle, 327 Pewter ware, 154 Picnic, straw ride, 333 Pictures, marvel, 215 Pigs, five little, 285 Pin loom, how to make, 16 Pine-shavings, 36 Pipe of peace, 119 Play house, open air, 298 Plays, finger, 273 Pocket-books, store, 314 Pole, May, 252 Possibilities of a clothes-line, 62 Pot hooks, 145 Pot, iron, 143 Pottery, 185 Practice on spinning-wheel, 11 Primitive reed curtains, 43

Q

Queen May, 245 Queer little teeter-tarter, 273

R

Race of dolls, new, 103 Rag rug, home-like, 154 Rare frolic, 320 Reed curtains, primitive, 43 Revels, Hallowe'en, 254 Rice ball, 171 Rifle, 151 Ring, grass napkin, 59 "Rock," 7 Roll, clay, 189 Roll of splint, 68 Rolling, egg, 235 Roof, Russian cathedral, 177 Rookwood pottery, 187 Rope netting, 65 Rose girl, 323 Rose petal boats, 320 Rug, 154 Rules, Pasch game, 234 Russia, odd things in, 175 Russian doll, 180

S

Sally Walker's hood, 208 Samovar, 182 Sash-curtain, 34 Scales, store, 309 Scent, false, 347 School-boy, 31 Screens, doorway, 49 Seed-top grasses, 61 Shafts, arrow, 123 Shapes, pottery, 192 Shavings, armful of, 36 Shield, Indian, 120 Shoes, Miss Muffet's, 107 Shovel, 144 Shuttle, 19 Sides, to weave basket, 39 "Simon Says," 335 Spindle, 5 Spindle-frame, 5 Spinning, 3 Spinning wheel, 3 Spinning wheel, colonial kitchen, 147 Splint basket, to weave, 68 Splint, roll of, 68 Spokes, splint basket, 69 Staple-nail, 46 Straw, bonnet wire, 95 Store, keeping, 308 Stories, telling, 343 Stoves, Russian, 180 Straw ride, 333 Straw ride picnic, 333 Study, tissue-paper, nature, 86 Sun-bonnet, Mary's, 218 Sun-bonnet, Miss Muffet's, 110 Supplies, store, 312 Supplies, straw ride picnic, 341 Swift dog, 116 Swing, 338 Symmetry, 295

T

Table egg rolling, 235 Table mats, 41 Table, moulding, 188 Talking children, 268 Tangle, word, 337 Targets, Mayday, 240 Tassels, 66 Tea, how Russians make, 188 Teeter tarter, 273 Tenor, singing, 269 Tent, floral, 317 Thankful Parker, 146 Things to make of common grasses, 53 Thread, when broken, 12 Time-piece, old fashioned, 159 Tinfoil, 153 Tissue paper, moulding in, 75 Toaster, 144 Tomahawk, 120 Tools, moulding, 188 Tower, apple, 214 Tower, finger, 282 Toy colonial kitchen, 133 Toys, apples, 206 Toys, tissue-paper, 75 Transparent vases, 292 Travois, to make, 118 Tree, Indian encampment, 129 Trimming, 73 Trousers, Russian, 181 Turkey, tissue-paper, 81 Turning eagle, 116 Turtle, pet, 327 Twine, what may be made of ball of, 27

U

Umbrella, Japanese, 173 Umbrella play house, 299 Uprights, spindle-frame, 5 Utensils, colonial kitchen, 144

V

Variety of candy, 317 Vases, 292 Vases, colorless, 292 Violets, 296

W

Walker, Sally, 208 Wampum, 131 War bonnet, 116 Ware, pewter, 154 Warp, to adjust, 19 Washington, clay head of, 202 Weavers, 68 Weaving on home-made loom, 15 Weaving splint basket, 70 Weights, clock, 159 Wheel, spinning, 3 White-ash splint, 74 Wig, Miss Muffet's, 106 Wigwam, playhouse, 301 Wigwam, to make, 112 Wild flowers, 295 Wild violets 296 Windmill, Dutch, 214 Windows, Russian cathedral, 177 Wing feathers, 222 Wish, bird, 337 Witch apple, 256 Wood-basket, 62 Wood chopper, finger, 277 Word tangle, 337 Woof, 20 Wool, Germantown, 20 Wrapping paper, 313 Wreaths, rose petal, 331

Z

Zulu doll, 115

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired. There is no figure 75.

Page xi, "Witche's" changed to "Witch's" (Witch's Hair)

Page xii, CHAPTER XXVI, "Play-House" and "Play-Houses" changed to "Playhouse" and "Playhouses" to match usage in text.

Page 193, "tanger" changed to "tanager" (cardinal, the scarlet tanager)

Page 206, "fellows" changed to "fellow" (little fellow differs)

Page 273, CHAPTER XXIV came after the chapter title, FINGER-PLAYS FOR LITTLE FOLKS, in the original text. These were switched to follow the form of the rest of the book.

Page 308, "Flay" changed to "Fly" ("Fly away, Jill,")

Page 337, "payed" changed to "played" (easily played as the)

Page 353, "Face, Miss Muffet's" was moved from the last place in the "E" section to the first place of the "F" section.

Page 354, the section titles for "I" and "J" were added to the text.

Page 355, since the text capitalizes all uses of Pasch, the index was changed to reflect this (Lifting for Pasch eggs) and also on page 355 (Rules, Pasch game)

Page 355, "Pocketbooks" changed to "Pocket-books" to match usage in text (Pocket-books, store)

Page 357, "play-house" changed to "playhouse" to match usage in text (Wigwam, playhouse)