Answering his own question, he said Yes, it is, as demonstrated by this
website: http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/games/beard/tipcat.htm
mj
MJ Walker wrote:
> Is this perhaps the same game as Cat and Trap, the one played by the
> idiotic Ward in *Women Beware Women*?- in which a trap stick (a
> cudgel) was used to hit a "cat", a piece of wood 6" long shaped into a
> double cone: "I beat him out o'th'field with his own cat-stick".
> mj
> Lyn Moir wrote:
>
>> Tipcat, or tip cat, not sure which. The short stick is the cat. Pre
>> war and just after have played this with cousins, mainly but not
>> exclusively boys.
>>
>> Lyn
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:56 PM
>> Subject: fun query
>>
>>
>>> A children's game, called quimbumbia in Cuba. The child has two
>>> sticks, one long, one short. He places the short one on the ground
>>> and hits one end of it with the long stick, causing the short stick
>>> to jump upwards, at which point he (it's a boy's game) whacks it.
>>> What's it called in English? Anybody know the Obies?
>>>
>>
>
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