This game requires for the leader a person who can tell a story or
make a little amusing speech. Each one who plays must place the right
hand upon the left arm. The leader then tells a story, during the
telling of which whenever he mentions any creature that can fly, every
right hand is to be raised and fluttered in the air to imitate the
action of flying. At the name of a creature that does not fly, the
hands must be kept quiet, under pain of a forfeit. Thus:
The little wren is very small,
The humming-bee is less;
The ladybird is least of all,
And beautiful in dress.
The pelican she loves her young,
The stork its parent loves;
The woodcock's bill is very long,
And innocent are doves.
In Germany they hunt the boar,
The bee brings honey home,
The ant lays up a winter store,
The bear loves honeycomb.
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