Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Leapfrog
- 24 September 2014
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In English it is called playing leapfrog
In French saute-mouton (where we are leaping over a sheep)
In Romanian it is called capra (we would be leaping over a goat)
In India it is called Aar Ghodi Ki Par Ghodi (we leap over a horse)
And in Italy it is called la cavallina (and we are still leaping over a horse, but a really small horse)
Same game by a different name
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Tutorials
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