The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 234
, in which each player jumps from one toanother of a series of pictures drawnon a floor or pavement. The pic-tures illustrate roughly the nurseryrhyme: There was a crooked man.He went a crooked mile.And found a crooked sixpenceAgainst a crooked stile ;He bought a crooked cat,Who caught a crooked… … Crooked Man Diagram. a house. These are drawn withchalk close together in any desiredorder, and each is surrounded witha circle. One of the players takeshis place in the middle of the groupof pictures, and the others sing therhyme to any well-known tune whichcan be made to fit it, for instance John…
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