CANOE TILTING
This is a revival of the ancient game of tilting as described in “Ivanhoe,” except that the tilters use canoes instead of horses and blunt sticks in place of spears and lances. The object is for the tilter to shove his opponent out of his canoe, meanwhile seeing to it that the same undesirable fate does not fall to his own lot. In singles each contestant paddles his own canoe with one end of his pike pole, but the sport is much greater if each canoe has two occupants, one to paddle and the other to do the “tilting”.
CAT
A small block of wood pointed at both ends is used in this game. The batter strikes it with a light stick and as it flies into the air attempts to bat it with the stick. If the cat is caught the batter is out. Otherwise he is entitled to a score equal to the number of jumps it will take him to reach the place where the cat has fallen. He then returns to bat again and continues until he is caught out.
COUNTING-OUT RHYMES
Almost every section has some favourite counting-out rhyme of its own. Probably the two most generally used are:
“My mother told me to take this one,”
and that old classic—
“Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.
Catch a nigger by the toe;
If he hollers, let him go.
Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.”
This is also varied into