e one who holds it. This fact is then shouted
aloud, and all of the players return to the den. If the player caught
should not have the geg, he is allowed to go free.

Of course it is to the interest of the Outs to engage the attention of
the Ins as much as possible upon players who do not hold the geg, thus
to give the holder of it a chance to make the den and so win for his
party.

SNOW DART

_2 to 10 players._

_For the snow._

This game is played with a wooden dart about eight inches long,
whittled out of wood about the size of a broomstick, pointed abruptly
at one end, and sloping gradually to the other. A narrow track or
slide is made down the side of a hill or inclined place, about sixty
feet in length. At four different points in this track snow barriers
or bumpers are made. The track is iced by throwing water over it and
letting it freeze.

[Illustration: SNOW DART]

The dart is started at a point at the top of the track. It is not
rulable to shove it; it must simply be placed on the track and move of
its own weight. The object of the game is to pass the dart in this way
over as many of the barriers as possible without its leaving the
track. Each player scores one point for each barrier, over which the
dart passes without leaving the track, the one having the highest
score at the end of the playing time winning. The players take turns
in sliding the dart. Any player who can successfully pass his dart
over all four barriers four times in succession, wins, irrespective of
other scores. If desired, the players may play in partners.

This game is an adaptation from one played by the Cree Indians.
For it the author is indebted to Mr. Stewart Culin's _Games of
the North American Indians_.

[Illustration: SNOW SNAKE

Menominee Indian holding snow snake preparatory to throwing. From
Hoffman.

_Reproduced from "Games of the North American Indians," by Stewart
Culin; with kind permission of the author and of the Bureau of
Ethnology, Washington, D.C._
]

SNOW SNAKE

_2 to 10 or more players._

_For the snow._

This game is played by skimming or skipping sticks over the hard
surface of the snow, as stones are skipped over the water. Each player
is provided with from three to five small sticks. These may be
especially whittled, or they may be pieces of branches. A perfectly
smooth stick is best, and one that has some weight to it. Each stick
is notched, one notch on the f