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Show An Italian Game. A traveler describes a game which is popular with tho children of Italy. It is very liko ouo played by American children. In Italy tho game is caZled counting the eggs, and is thus played: Tho children sit in a row on tho graEs, with every jair of brown feet well in sight. The mother counts her eggs that is, tho children's feet and then says: "Now, thsro are 16 eggs. Be suis oa don't cat any while I go to' hurch. "' En her absence tho children uck up e certain number of feet under theii frocks and say, "What a long tinu mother is at church I" She cowos liGme. counts tho eggs and says: "Why, how Is this? I loft IG and now there aro onlj ten." Tho children answer that a worn an camo while she was gone and offered four chickens for the six oggs, and thej took her offer. ""Wiicru aro tho eggs?" asked tho mother. "Down in tho field, " they reply. The mother goes to seeh them, and no sooner is her back turned than all her children jvnp and dance about, shouting, "We've eaten then ourselves," whereupon the mother ha to catch them all aud whip them. The iast one caught has to bo the mother th aoxt time- |