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Source: Games For The Playground, Home, School And Gymnasium
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Crossing The Brook_5 to 60 or more players._
_Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._
This game is a great favorite with little children. A place
representing a brook is marked off by two lines on the ground. For
little children in the first year of school (about six years old) this
may start with a width of two feet. The players ran in groups and try
to jump across the brook. Those who succeed turn around and jump back
with a standing jump instead of a running jump. On either of these
jumps the player who does not cross the line representing the bank
gets into the water and must run home for dry stockings, being
thereafter out of the game. The successful jumpers are led to wider
and wider places in the brook to jump (a new line being drawn to
increase the distance), until the widest point is reached at which any
player can jump successfully. This player is considered the winner.
This game is printed by kind permission of the Alumni
Association of the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, from the
book _One Hundred and Fifty Gymnastic Games_.
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