At the Playground

Robert Louis Stevenson asked "How do you like to go up in a swing?".
I liked to very much. Some kids would say that if you swung hard enough you would go over the top of the bar and (if you were lucky) go around without getting hurt. But I never could swing that hard, and I thought you would get hurt. Swings used to have wooden seats, so some kids would stand up and swing really hard. It was fun but dangerous--that's why swings now have soft seats.
The see-saw was pretty much fun. One person sat at each end, and if they weighed about the same amount they could go up and down and up and down. But some kids would get off the see-saw when they were at the bottom, and the person at the top would come down fast! That wasn't good at all.
My favorite playground activity was playing on the jungle-gym. It was made of metal and had lots of bars. You could do somersaults over the bars. You could hang by your knees (or ankles for a minute). You could climb to the top. Sometimes people stood on the top, and sometimes they fell off. I liked to hook my arms around the bar at the top and spin round and round. I was small enough that I would not knock into the other bars. I know exactly what it felt like, and it was wonderful, but I can't imagine how I had the nerve to do it.