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Rh their knotted handkerchiefs while he is running home. If the Fox can touch one of his would-be tormentors while he is hopping the player touched becomes Fox.

A goal is selected to which one of the players, called "Lame Goose," repairs. The other players call out to him, "Lame goose, lame goose, can't catch anybody" and run up and down in front of his goal, tantalizing him in all manners conceivable. "Can't I, though," replies the Lame Goose, and starts after the players. He must not, however, run after them, but must take three steps only and then hop on one leg, and as soon as he "breaks" all the players rush at him and drive him to his goal, pommelling him on the back with their fists, until he has reached it. If, however, the lame goose succeeds in tagging one of the players he joins the other players in driving the one tagged to the goal, as described above, and the player tagged is "it."

One of the players, called the "Sculptor," arranges the other players in different positions and attitudes as statues. No player dares move or speak, for as soon as he does the sculptor punishes him by beating him with a knotted handkerchief or towel (the sack-beetle). After having arranged the players to suit his fancy the sculptor leaves the playground, saying: "The sculptor is not at home." No sooner is he gone than the statues come to life, sing, dance, jump and play havoc in general. On the return of the sculptor he counts, "One, two, three," and any player who is not in his former posture at "three" receives a beating with the knotted handkerchief from the sculptor. Should the sculptor punish the wrong statue all the players rush at him with knotted handkerchiefs and drive him to a goal previously decided upon, and the game is resumed with some other player as sculptor.