Games, pastimes and amusements, for boys and girls; (1906)
Garman, Raymond H. [from old catalog] · [Chicago, Thompson & Thomas] · leaf 77
ance in time with the swinging rope, repeating in sing-song tones the verse of the hundred skips. Proud, indeed,are the youngsters who complete the hundred turns of therope without mishap. Sometimes as many as twenty-five children assemblefor a skipping-rope contest. Then ropes swing… … Rope-skipping. Ke clip, ke clop. Ke clip, ke clop.A hundred times before we stop.And if we trip, as trip we may,Well try again some other day. Games, Pastimes and Amusements 71 dancing. Successively, the leader calls for pepper, salt,mustard and vinegar, the rope swinging faster andfaster at each…
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