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Show Good Old-Fashloned Games. Truckling tho Trencher This Is nn old English gnmo. Tho children sit on tho lloor or kneel, In a ring; a person per-son In tho centor holds tho trencher, or wooden plato, nnd when nil nro ready ho truckles, or spins It, nt tho snmo timo calling tho nnmo of somo ono in tho ring. Tho ono named must spring quickly nnd try to catch tho pinto between both hnntls boforo It stops spinning. If ho succeeds, ho takes tho placo In tho center, and tho first truckler goes In the ring. If ho does not catch tho pinto betwen both lunula boforo It stops spinning ho pays u forfeit and Is counted out. Thon thoro Is tho play of "Twos nnd Threes." Tho company Is grouped In twos and throes, usually only ono odd out), and tho fun consisted In not being be-ing caught as tho third; this keeps each child looking over her shoulder, when two woro behind, the foremost must slip nway and llnd another plnco or bo trapped. After u staud-up game, n rather funny gnmt whore nil the company sit Is to linvo ono person chosen to cnll nnd the rest tojopeat: One good fat hen. Two ducks. Three plump nartrldgos. Four squawking wild geese. Flio felicitous, oysters. Six pairs of Hoinnn-strlped ho-,e. Sfieu i lum.saiiil spunlsh soldiers. Klght cages of Hellognhnllis paroquets. Nino ynip:ithctlc. apathetic, didactic propositions. propo-sitions. KIcven superstitious n-ttmno-mer.s viewing Venus In Venice. Tw.lvp European danelinj mailers teaching Egjplinn mummies to dance nt Hercules Her-cules wedding If any -ono laughs during this exerclso ho must pay n forfeit. The one who repeats most smoothly nnd solemnly miwt bo tho caller on I and begin thu gibberish over nguln. |