nd, repeating the verse,
the final question being asked each time by a different player, until
the buzzard finally says, "Twelve o'clock!" When this occurs, the ring
stands still, and the following dialogue takes place between the
buzzard and the hen:--

_Hen._ Old buzzard, old buzzard, what are you doing?

_Buz._ Picking up sticks.

_Hen._ What do you want the sticks for?

_Buz._ To build a fire.

_Hen._ What are you building a fire for?

_Buz._ To broil a chicken.

_Hen._ Where are you going to get the chicken?

_Buz._ Out of your flock!

The buzzard, who keeps a crouching attitude with face downcast during
this dialogue, suddenly rises on the last words and chases the
players, who scatter precipitately. When a player is captured, the
buzzard brings him back, lays him down, and dresses him for dinner,
while the rest of the players group around. The buzzard asks of the
captured chicken, "Will you be picked or scraped?" and goes through
the motions of picking feathers or scaling fish, as the chicken
decides. The buzzard then asks, "Will you be pickled or salted?" "Will
you be roasted or stewed?" each time administering to the recumbent
chicken the appropriate manipulations. At the end he drags the victim
to a corner, and the game goes on with the remainder of the players.

OLD MAN TAG

_10 to 60 players._

_Schoolroom._

The players are in groups of two rows each, which play together. These
two rows face away from each other. Thus the first and second row will
turn respectively to the right and left, with their feet in the
aisles, toward which they then face. This will leave a free aisle
between them, in which the "old man" may run about. The third and
fourth rows play together, facing away from each other, and leaving a
free aisle for their old man or tagger. This will bring the second and
third rows with their feet in the same aisle.

[Illustration diagram: OLD MAN TAG]

For each group one player is selected to be old man or tagger. The
teacher gives a signal, whereupon all of the players stand. The object
of the game is for the old man to tag any player who is standing. The
players may avoid this by sitting whenever the old man approaches
them. Should he succeed in tagging any player, that player must remain
seated until the end of the game, but any player who sits to escape
tagging must rise again as soon as the old man has moved away from
his vicinity. The player is considered to have won