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if they succeed pursue and catch the unlucky player and rub his head 
with the ball, telling him that they will ‘oil his head so that he shall 
not starve,” while the other players shriek with laughter. This game 
goes on night after night during the season on top of a hill near St 
Michael, the laughter and cries of the players being heard for hours. 
In addition to this game another is played, particularly among the 
women, in which the ball is merely tossed from hand to hand. 
HOOKEY (ai/-yu-til’'-“-git or pdt-lh’u-té?'-i-git)—(St Michael). This 
is played with a small ball of ivory, leather, or wood, and a stick 
curved at the lower end. The ball and stick are called put-k’w/-tik. 
The ball is placed on the ground or ice and the players divide into two 
parties. Each player with his stick attempts to drive the ball across 
the opponents’ goal, which is established as in the football game. 
GRASS-BALL GAME (miim’-ti-g’u)—(St Michael). In summer the men 
make a stout ball of grass, five or six inches in diameter, from which 
the game takes its name. Sides are chosen and each, when having the 
ball, pursues the other. The members of each side try to hit their 
opponents with the ball while the latter attempt to avoid being struck 
or to obtain the ball in order to hit their opponents. The side scoring 
the greatest number of hits is the winner. 
ROPE JUMPING (d-tukh'-ta-guik)—(St Michael). This is a summer 
game played out of doors. A heavy rope, from 18 to 24 feet in length, 
made of braided grass, is held at each end by a man or a woman and 
swung in a circle. One player stands in the middle, sidewise to the 
rope, and must jump it twice in succession as it is swung around and 
then spring away without being touched. He is then replaced by a 
companion, who repeats the performance. If either fails he exchanges 
place with one of those swinging the rope. This rope is called 
pi-hakh'-luk, : 
BLIND-MAN’S BUFF (chaf-ta’-gaun)—(St Michael). This is played by 
young people during spring and summer. One of the players, either a 
man or a woman, is blindfolded and the others stand in a circle around 
him and set up a shout. After this all try to keep perfectly quiet, 
creeping softly about on the ground to avoid being caught, the first 
person caught being in turn blindfolded. 
HIDE AND SEEK (i-¢’u/-ta-g’a’-tl-hit)—(St Michael). This game is 
played in summer, when the grass is long, by both men and women, 
but not together. The players divide into two sides, standing oppo- 
site each other and bent over so that the crowns of each opposing pair 
rest against each other, their hands being clasped and outstretched on 
each side. Then a designated player hides in the grass or behind some 
shelter and when well concealed utters a faint cry. The two sides 
then separate, the opposing side searching for the one concealed. 
When he is found all join as before, with heads and hands together, 
while the one successful in discovering the other conceals himself in 
the same manner. 
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