stick frog

The others could tell stories, play stick frog or such quiet games, but there was to be no noise to disturb the wonderful speaking going on upstairs for the betterment of Wayne County schools.

One would scarcely think of hardening a quill in order to enable it to compete with a steel nib in some of the least desirable qualities, though one often wishes one could accomplish the reverse process, and soften or supple a steel 'stick frog' so as to give it the elasticity of the grey goose quill.