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[Illustration: RING A' ROSES

_From the painting by Fred Morgan_

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GAMES

FOR

THE PLAYGROUND, HOME, SCHOOL
AND GYMNASIUM


BY

JESSIE H. BANCROFT

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NEW YORK CITY;
EX-SECRETARY AMERICAN PHYSICAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION; MEMBER AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE; AUTHOR OF "SCHOOL
GYMNASTICS," ETC., ETC.


  New York
  THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
  1922

  _All rights reserved_

  COPYRIGHT, 1909,
  BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

  Set up and electrotyped. Published, December, 1909.


  Norwood Press
  J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
  Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




TABLE OF CONTENTS


                                                             PAGE

INTRODUCTION                                                    1

TO THE TEACHER OF GAMES                                        26

COUNTING-OUT; CHOOSING SIDES; WHO'S "IT