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This game consists in the mother or nurse, or whoever wishes to amuse, placing the child on the knee, and then lifting the legs in imitation of rough-riding, repeating the words:—

This is continued to the great delight of the child as long as the amuser has strength.

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This amusement may be made for the child by the mother or nurse dandling the child on her knee in imitation of riding, or, if the child is old enough, it receives a staff or piece of stick, which it puts between its legs, and then moves about as if riding, and repeats the words itself: —