A small space is marked off at one end of the ground as a base or goal.  One player is chosen to be the chief, an important personage requiring two body guards.  The game starts with these three players in the goal and the balance of the players at large.  The three come forth, and the two players who act as body guards clasp each other by the hand, and preceding the chief as a shield, endeavor to prevent the other players at large from tagging the chief.  The chief himself may avoid being tagged by moving around the guards.  Whenever a guard succeeds in tagging a player, the chief and his guards return home, whereupon the player tagged changes places with the man who tagged him.  Any player succeeding in tagging the chief becomes the chief.

Sardines

One of the players in the group hides, while the other players seek to find him.  Should a player succeed, he endeavors to get into the hiding place unobserved by the others and hides with the first player.  As the game continues, and other players succeed in finding the hiding place, the number of hiding players continues to increase until they are packed in like sardines, hence the name.  It is difficult for them, crowded together, in this way, to keep from disclosing the hiding place to the remaining players.  The game continues until the last player has discovered the hiding place.  The first one to make the discovery hides in the next round.

This is a good game to be played around a farm house where there are a number of hiding places, or in the woods where there are trees, boulders and ravines.

Shinny

This is a good game for boys and girls.  It has furnished amusement for many generations of children.  Each player must secure a stick about 2-1/2 feet long.  An alder stick with a small bend at one end furnishes an ideal implement for this game.  An old baseball or where this is not procurable, a tin can or a block of wood, may be used.  The players are divided into two teams.  Two stones, placed about five feet apart at each end of the playing space, serve as goals.  The playing space should be about 30 to 50 yards in length.  A level stretch of road can be used, or an open field.  The game starts by each team taking a position anywhere in the half of the field nearest the goal they are defending.

The ball is placed in the centre of the playing space.  Two opposing players, known as centres, take a position on opposite sides of the ball, within a distance of two feet of it, with the end of their clubs on the ground.  The process of putting the ball into play is called “facing off”.  In facing off, the two centres raise their clubs from the ground and hit them together above the ball.  They do this three times and after hitting them above the ball for the third time, they are allowed to hit at the ball, endeavoring to knock it towards their own