Jump

 In giving the gesture for jumping it is desirable to bear in mind the way in which the different animals jump, so as to determine the nature or radius of the curve. The white-tailed deer jumps high and a goodly distance, the mountain lion not so high but longer distance; the size of the animal has something to do with it, as with a rabbit, where the hand indicates very short jumps. There is one exception to this latter rule, viz., the frog, whose jump is represented as quite long.—Clark