PRISONER ON THE HILL
This is another game to play in the country, especially in hilly, Wooded districts. It may be played in the sandhills also, or in parts Where there is verv high cocksfoot growing. • The "prisoner" climbs to the highest point of the hill and stands &t bay. He is really the outlaw and the job of the "policemen" or hunters" is to creep upon him Without being seen by him. While he is watching a suspiciously waving clump of grass or a branch of a >ree tossing a little, he may be in
danger from the rear. Often the hunters arrange to decoy him; one or two or three of them will creep towards him very carefully while others deliberately let themselves be seen. As a hunter is seen by the prisoner he must drop out; sometimes there is a very exciting finish in the shape of a triangle, with the prisoner in the middle. He is kept very busy turning from point to point of his wary triangle. If there is thick manuka bush growing up a cone-shaped hill, that is the hill for this game. Prisoner and hunters will both have to be extremely careful.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21355, 24 December 1934, Page 10 (Supplement)
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