To the first and second success which you have already gained you add the third, for which you have long been seeking.

The game is yours, and you clap your hands, and hunch your opponent in the side, and shout, "Tick-tack-to, Three in a row." The funniest play that I ever joined in at school, and one that sets me a-laughing now as I think of it so I can hardly write, is "leap-frog." It is unartistic and homely.

It is so humiliating to the boy who bends himself over and puts his hands down on his knees, and it is so perilous to the boy who, placing his hands on the stooped shoulders, attempts to fly over.

But I always preferred the risk of the one who attempted the leap rather than the humiliation of the one who consented to be vaulted over.

It was often the case that we both failed in our part and we went down together.