Seven swans a swimming, six bottles of Frontignac, etc.

Eight flip flap floating fly boats, seven swans, etc.

Nine merchants going to Bagdad, eight flip flap, etc.

Ten Italian dancing masters going to teach ten Arabian magpies
how to dance, nine merchants going to Bagdad, etc.

Eleven guests going to celebrate the marriage of the Princess
Baldroubadour with the Prince of Terra del Fuego, ten Italian
dancing masters going to teach ten Arabian magpies, etc.

Twelve triumphant trumpeters triumphantly trumpeting the
tragical tradition of Telemachus, eleven guests going to
celebrate the marriage, etc.

The players sit in a circle; the one who is leader turns to the next
player and says, "My lady's lapdog." This player turns to the one next
him and repeats the phrase, which is thus handed around the circle.
When it gets back to the leader, the leader turns to his neighbor and
adds an item to that previously mentioned, saying, "Two plump
partridges and my lady's lapdog." This goes around the circle, when
the leader says, "Three great elephants, two plump partridges, and my
lady's lapdog," and so on, adding each time different items according
to the formula given above. Any player failing to repeat the list
correctly pays a forfeit.

VARIATION.--For younger players, the following list may be found
better:--

A big fat hen.

Two ducks and a big fat hen.

Three wild geese, two ducks, and a big fat hen.

Four plump partridges, three wild geese, two ducks, etc.

Five pouting pigeons, four plump partridges, three, etc.

Six long-legged cranes, five pouting pigeons, etc.

Seven green parrots, six long-legged cranes, etc.

Eight screeching owls, seven green parrots, six long-legged,
etc.

Nine ugly black turkey buzzards, eight screeching owls, etc.

Ten thousand domesticated chimney swallows, nine ugly black
turkey buzzards, eight screeching owls, etc.

NAUGHTS AND CROSSES

_2 players._

_Indoors; out of doors._

[Illustration diagram: NAUGHTS AND CROSSES]

A diagram is drawn on a slate, paper, or the ground, and consists of
two vertical lines, crossed by two horizontal lines. One player
chooses to write "naughts" (o) and the other "crosses" (x). The
players take turns in marking a naught or a cross in one of the nine
places provided by the diagram, the object being to get three na