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by counting out. Andrews gives hau-pee-pee as the name of the game. In Japan it is called oni gokko, "devil playing." Hide- and-seek is referred to by Stair * among the amusements of the Samoans, and by Williams* as a Fijian game. Taylor" mentions hide-and-seek in New Zealand under the name of he waka pupuni or piri. Codrington 4 says: "In the Banks' island boys play at hide-and-seek, rur quona quona ; there are two sides, and if the boy who is hiding is not found by the seekers, he suddenly jumps up and counts a pig against them."

67. He-lu-pa-a-ni : " Play-counting," Counting-OUT.— The following counting-out rhymes were related :

Mo-ke mo-ke a- 1 a pi-a How many mo-ke a-Ia pi-a? One, two, three, four, au-ka hi-a.*

Ki-li ki-li ka.

A-ka-hi ou o-i ha Pa-e-le pa-ki-ni J-kau-a le-hei pa Mai no a-la-ea Mo-mo- na ka-pe-le-na Ka-i-o-le wi-/u*

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��68. Pla-pi-o : " Prisoner-play," Tag.— The one who is "it (a-iu-a) is determined by counting out. He chases the others, and the one first tagged becomes a-ku-a in turn. Plaa is the English word "play," Hawaiian pa-a-ni.

69. Ho-lo-pee-a-na-lo. — A game of hiding played by a number

of boys. When all are ready one of the boys pounds on the back

of the a-ku-a, singing the following song while the others hide :

Ku-i-ku-i ka-mu-mu-mu Ho-lo i-u-ka ho-lo-kai.

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b Probably a variant of " Monkey, monkey, bottle of beer, | How many monkeys are there here ? | One, two, three, | Out goes he ! " — a counting-out rhyme reported by Dr H. Carrington Bolton (The Counting-out Rhymes of Childrett % New York, 18S8, p. 116) from many parts of the United States.

"Similar to a counting-out rhyme from Hawaii given by Dr Bolton, op. cit.„ appendix.

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