That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 02, 2019

All the practice was for naught. The Olympic Committee rejected leap frog as an event.

Early teabaggers.

The steeplechase looked different for awhile when all the horses had been eaten after the war.

“Man-buns, tri-corner hats, and knee-high socks. Could we look any sexier? I know, let’s try buddy jumping! That’ll have the ladies flocking around us!”

Hey no fair I want a piggyback ride too!

the boys getting a bit wild and crazy after one too many sambuca shots…

It’s all fun and games until somebody loses a nut.

Early chiropractor adjusting the spine.

The prototype “Epic Rap Battles of History.”

Children had a hard time amusing themselves before the invention of baseball, soccer, or frisbee (and you weren’t allowed to bring your musket to the Common)

Ah yes, that old game, Kneed in the Head.

Although some do not like the electoral college, it was an improvement over this, the original method of electing a president.

In 18th -century Italy, Second Amendment issues were resolved more sensibly.

It’s a fairly enjoyable sport/ and t’was used as a last resort/ for selecting the judges /(no torpid old drudges !)/ who sat on their Supreme Court.

SALMON DRESS LADY: Darling, what interest do those grown men have in that children’s game? MR: You don’t want to know my sweet. You don’t want to know…

Landowners Luigi & Lucy Luciano looking lovingly at their lazy lads leaping and lolling on a Lanciano lawn.

It shows as 1887, but I would say the clothing depicted is late 1700s.

Game of Leap Frog: 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?id=232033 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2142 

https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=84676 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Raffaello_Sorbi/11071675/Raffaello_Sorbi.aspx 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the last can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2340 (December 1, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

People laugh, but leap frog was VERY serious back in the day!

One misstep and you had a friend for life or a bitter enemy to the end!

Women in the background: Oh no, they don’t have time to help with the laundry. Too busy at their games. We’ll just see how they like their new shrunken underwear. That should make the game more exciting.

“‘Gad, sir! One is supposed to mount one’s horsie from the other side!”

“Remember dear when we played that game on our honeymoon?”

What’s really impressive is that they were able to hold that pose for the artist.

They’re playing Leap-Freud.

colonial gay men’s “gay days in the park” off to a rousing start