This is an in-door game, founded on the familiar "Hunt the Thimble."
We use a little dummy coon; either make it or turn a ready-made toy rabbit into one by adding tail and black mask, and cropping the ears.
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All the players but one go out of the room. That one places the coon anywhere in sight, high or low, but in plain view; all come in and seek. The first to find it, sits down silently, and scores one. Each sits down, on seeing it, giving no clue to the others.
The first to score three coons is winner, usually. Sometimes we play till everyone but one has a coon; that one is the booby. The others are first, second, etc.
Sometimes each is given his number in order of finding it.
Then, after seven or eight coons, these numbers are added up, and the lowest is winner. If no coon is available use a thimble.
Spear Fights
This is an in-door game with out-door weapons. The soft-headed, eight foot spears of the tilting-match are used. The contestants stand on barrels eight feet apart. Each tries to put the other off his barrel. It is well to have a catcher behind each player to save him if he falls.
Games are for seven, eleven, or thirteen points.