This required a confederate, who left the room. The other in the secret
asked a person inside to whisper to him whom she (or he) loved, then
called in his companion, and the following dialogue was carried on:--
"She said, and she said!
And what did she say?"
"She said that she loved."
"And whom did she love?
Suppose she said she loved ----?"
"No! she never said that, whatever she said."
An indefinite number of names were mentioned before the right one. When
that came, to the surprise of the whisperer, the answer was--
"Yes! she said that."
The secret was very simple, the name of a widow or widower was always
given before that whispered.
The two next are played everywhere, but the words I believe are
peculiar to Cornwall.