_kick the stone_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/39606

kick the stone When I was a small girl, my playmates and I always played a variation of hopscotch called "Kick the Stone" in which one kicked a fairly large flat stone around nine blocks in a square. If the stone landed on the line between two blocks one was 'out'. However, if the stone came close to the line but not so close that it could be definitely said he be on the line (over) --> [reverse] it was said "God will prove it." and the person was given another chance. However, this system was continuously abused, for even when the stone was definitely on the line; each of us insisted that it wasn't (When it was our stone that was invalued.) Then - depending on the number of friends we had in the game , we got to say "God will prove it" - and got to throw our stone again, more carefully this time. [check] This is rough [image] The stone was kicked from block 1, to 2, to 3 and diagram of so on you threw the stone in block one and kicked kick the it around the square. When the stone was in block stone' 9 you had to kick it out over blocks 2, 8, 4 or 6 Then you threw the stone in block 2, then 3 and so on. SEP 21 1970 Not used Not used Withdrawn [see also 'hopscotch', etc.] Checked by Raji Sreeni on Tue 11 Aug 2015; Reverse side of K_13644. NEWFOUNDLAND FOLKLORE SURVEY.