The Hunt
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Model:mistral-large-2512.Translated text
Section titled “Translated text”This game, briefly mentioned by Gołębiowski, in more recent times, following the English model, is called the game of “Hares and Hounds” or cross-country running. It is suitable only for adolescent boys, and participants should be examined by a doctor beforehand, as it is very exhausting and dangerous for the weaker and less agile. Two teams of 5 participants take part in the game. Each team selects one “hare.” The hares set off (from a rural or suburban cottage, convenient for changing, bathing, and having a meal) cross-country through fields and forests, not avoiding obstacles such as hills, ditches, fences, and the like. They mark their trail quite densely with a “scent,” which consists of scraps of paper thrown from a pouch attached to their belts. From time to time, one of them deviates to lay a false trail over a short distance (in places where the deception can only be discovered at the end of the trail). They run along a curved line that returns to the starting point, covering 5—8 kilometers. A quarter of an hour after the “hares,” both teams of “hounds” set off. They must follow the trail the entire time. The hounds arriving at the finish line are assigned numbers corresponding to the order in which they arrived. The team with the smaller sum of these numbers wins: for example, if the players of the white team arrived as 1, 3, 4, 8 (sum = 16), and those of the red team as 2, 5, 6, 7 (sum = 20), the white team wins.
Source scan: Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library, marked “Public Domain.” View PDF — page 128.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Eugeniusz Piasecki, Zabawy i gry ruchowe dzieci i młodzieży (1922)
- Printed pages: 123–124 / PDF 128–129
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 123
- Read the source text: zgr-081