Every player excepting the boy known as Bear, must twist and knot his
handkerchief. The Bear selects a tree as a starting point, and states
his object will be to tag the others. Whoever is tagged becomes a Bear,
and must return to the tree, pursued and beaten all the way back with
the knotted handkerchiefs. The two Bears then join hands, and, starting
out, try to tag every one that is possible, and this action is repeated
until all the players are Bears. Whenever the chain of Bears is broken,
as it sometimes is by an attack from the rear, the Bears again return
to the tree.