THIS is a game in which you have to “pay attention,” and perhaps you
have played it at school. You must all sit in a circle and let your
hands hang down from the wrists. The leader of this game begins, “Cats
have feathers, dogs have feathers, rabbits have feathers, geese have
feathers.” The minute he names something that really has feathers, you
must all raise your hands and wave them. Whoever doesn’t do this must
pay a forfeit. As the leader must speak very, very quickly, it is easy
to be “caught napping.”
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired. About a third of the way through
the book, the printer started using small-capitals on the first word
of each chapter. (Page 30—AN AFTERNOON IN HOLLAND) To make the layout
consistent, small-capitals have been added to the initial chapters as
well. As usual, small-capitals will appear as ALL-CAPITALS in the plain
text version.