dog-on-wood

Updated: August 28, 2026

Then, as soon as you could, you limped home for a rag, and kept pretty quiet about it so as to get out again without letting on to your mother. With the races came the other plays which involved running, like hide-and-go-whoop, and tag, and dog-on-wood, and horse, which I dare say the boys of other times and other wheres know by different names.

William Dean Howells - A Boy's Town