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Rh the second and third girls go through, and so on as long as they wish to keep up the game, saying or singing the following rhyme:

By this time the girls had lost most of their strangeness or embarrassment and continued the flower-pot until we were compelled to remind them that they were playing for us. Everybody let go hands and the little general called out,

"The cow's tail."

One girl with a small stick in her hand squatted down