Duck Friar The game of Leap-frog. --_Apollo Shroving_, 1627, p. 83. Ducks and Drakes A pastime in which flat stones or slates are thrown upon the surface of a piece of water, so that they may dip and emerge several times without sinking (Brockett s _North Country Words_). Neither cross and pile nor ducks and drakes are quite so ancient as hand dandy (Arbuthnot and Pope, quoted in Todd s _Johnson_). Halliwell gives the words used in the game both formerly and at the present day. If the stone emerges only once it is a duck, and increasing in the following order:-- 2. A duck and a drake, 3. And a halfpenny cake, 4. And a penny to pay the old baker, 5.
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