Jumping Rope
Source:
What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games And Pastimes
Category:
OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS
Ordinary skipping is good enough fun for most of us, but for those who
are not satisfied with it there is skipping extraordinary, one feat of
which is now and then to send the rope round twice before you touch
the ground again. To do this, as it cannot be done with a mere rope,
you must make a new rope of whipcord, in the middle of which you place
a small chain about a foot long. This chain gives the weight necessary
for whirling the rope very swiftly through the air.
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