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MISS JENNIA JONES.

This game is a great favorite with New York children. The mother is seated. Jennia Jones stands beside her, or reclines on her lap, as if quite sick. The rest of the players join hands in a line and move back and forth in front of the mother and daughter, led by one who acts as spokeswoman. They sing:

The spokeswoman steps forward, and the mother says to her, "Miss Jennia Jones is washing."

The questions are kept up to the same tune, and the reply is that she is ironing, or baking, or scrubbing, or sweeping. She is then represented as sick, as worse, and finally as dead, which news is received with signs of deep grief. Then the players move back and forth, singing:

Some one suggests "Blue."

Then they go round, singing:

The ring breaks up, and flies with shrieks, pursued by the ghost of Miss Jennia Jones. The one caught has to take her place, and the game begins again. 99