House Ball

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Game	House Ball
Game Family	Kickball Kickball
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Description	Scotland - per MacLagan. The Scots name for the ordinary English game of Rounders. Pitched balls are struck by hand.
Sources	R. C. MacLagan, "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'," Folklore 16, no. 1 (1905), page 83. A similar description appears in Folk Lore; A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, and Custom (David Nutt, London, 1905), page 83.
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