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Tribe ActiTities 49 scores i. Each sits down, od seeing it, giving no clue to the others. The first to score 3 coons is winner, usuaUy. Sometimes we play till every one but one has a cocm; that one is the booby. The others are first, second, etc. Sometimes each is given her number in order of finding it. Then, after 7 or 8 coons, these numbers are added up, and the lawesf is winner. Rat-<m-the-Lodg«  Each player has a good-sized bean bag. This is the rat and is kept by the player permanently. The lodge is any solid object su indies ox more above the ground or floor. A deed line is drawn thrcwigh the lodge tad another p>arallel, 1 5 feet away, for a firing-line. The girl who is "it," or "keeper," perches her bean bag or rat on the lodge. The others stand at the firing-line and throw their bean bags at hers. They must not pick them up or touch them with their hands when they are beymd the dead-line. If one does, then the keeper can tag her (unless she reaches the firing-line) and send her to do duty as keeper at the rock. But they can coax their rats with thdr feet, up to the dead- line not beyond, then watch for a chance to dodge back to the firing-line, where they are safe at all times. If the rat is knocked off by any one in fair firing, the keeper is powerless till she has replaced it. Meantime, most of the play- «8 have secured their rats and got back safe to the firing-line. Water-Boiling Cwtett Given a hatchet and knife, i match, a 2-quart pail, 7 inches or Iws m diameter, one quart of water and a block of K^t wood about 2 feet long and 5 or 6 inches through. 'The record for water-boiling is said to be 7.59. First cut plenty (,f wood. Spend three minutes on it. Sup- port >-our pail on four pegs driven in the ground or by a long stick driven diagoiiuiiy into the ground. If water is handy dip thepegs in it before placing. ™ water must be jumping and bubbUng aU over the surface or It IS not boilmg. If the first match goes out, contestants are usually allowed a second, but are penaliaed by having a minutes added to their