scout n also ~ out, scouty out [phonetics unavailable]. Children's chasing game.
P 148-63 Scouty out—a game that the boys play on the road. T 75/6-64 We used to play skating and scout out. [In] scout out we'd get out on the ice and I'd take so many men out from the fellows over here. And another fellow'd take charge o' same amount o' fellows over there. And one feller'd run, and there'd be another feller run from that crowd, and if you could catch him he's a prisoner. 1967 Bk of Nfld iv, 242 Time lost from studies ... playing so much 'scout' and 'barrel-over' and engaging in other non-productive activities. P 108-73 [He said] that when the IGreat] Fire broke out in 1892 he was playing Scout Out with some other boys, and he related his memories of that day.
