ors; out of doors._

This game is especially enjoyed by little boys, for whom there
is a comparatively small number of appropriate singing games.

The players all stand in two lines facing each other. They clap their
hands in time with the song, and sing the first verse:--

[Illustration music:

Oh, have you seen the Shah? Oh,
have you seen the Shah? He lights his pipe on a
star-light night, Oh, have you seen the Shah?

For a-hunt-ing we will go, A-
hunt-ing we will go. We'll catch a fox and
put him in a box. A-hunt-ing we will go.
]

Oh, have you seen the Shah?
Oh, have you seen the Shah?
He lights his pipe on a starlight night.
Oh, have you seen the Shah?

For a-hunting we will go,
A-hunting we will go.
We'll catch a fox and put him in a box.
A-hunting we will go.

While the last verse is being sung, the two players at the top of the
lines run forward, join hands, and run down between the lines to the
foot, turn around, join the other hands, and return between the lines.
When they have reached the head again, they unclasp hands and run down
the outside of the lines, each on his own side, and take their places
at the foot of the lines. By this time the verse should be finished,
and it is then sung again, the two players who are now standing at the
head running down through the middle, etc. This is repeated until all
the players have run, when the two lines join hands in a ring and all
dance around, repeating the verse for the last time.

For a large number of players several may run instead of two. The
first two then represent foxes, the next four, prancing or galloping
horses (all in time to the music), and four others for riders or
hunters.

ITISKIT, ITASKET

_10 to 30 or more players._

_Indoors; out of doors._

This is a form of Drop the Handkerchief, differing somewhat in play,
and also in that a verse is sung with the game.

All of the players but one stand in a circle with clasped hands; the
odd player, carrying a handkerchief, runs around on the outside of the
circle, singing the following verse:--

Itiskit, Itasket,
A green and yellow basket;
I wrote a letter to my love
And on the way I dropped it.
Some one of you has picked it up
And put it in your pocket;
It isn't you--it isn't you--

This last phrase is repeated until the player reaches one behind whom
he wishes to drop the handk