Another and apparently older way of playing "Hunt the Squirrel" is a game in which the child touched follows the toucher until he has caught him, pursuing him both in and out of the ring, being obliged to enter and leave the circle at the same point as the latter. A kissing-game, in which the player who makes the circuit taps another on the shoulder, and then takes flight, while the person touched is entitled to a kiss if he can capture the fugitive before the latter has made the tour of the circle and gained the vacant place, is a favorite among the "Pennsylvania Dutch," under the name of "Hen-slauch" (Hand-slag), that is, striking with the hand. The game is there called "Ring," and has inspired certain verses of Harbach, the nearest approach to a poet which that unimaginative race has produced.[106] In a similar game, formerly played in Massachusetts, the leader of the game touches one of the party on the shoulder, and asks, "Have you seen my sheep?" The first replies, "How was it dressed?" The toucher now describes the costume of some player, who, as soon as he recognizes the description of himself, must take flight, and endeavor to regain his place in safety. FOOTNOTES: [97] The first lines, "Chickany," etc., are from one old version, the rest from another. In the first the bird of prey was called the "Blind Buzzard," and the game ended as Blind-man's Buff. [98] That is: "Hawk, hawk, what are you digging for?" "My mother has lost a silver needle." "Is it this?" "No." "Is it this?" "No." "Is it this?" "Yes." [99] "So-and-so had a nail driven into his shoe, and insisted that he could not be touched while standing on iron."--_A Bostonian informant._ [100] The French name in Berry is _Tu l'as_; elsewhere _La caye_; in Limousin, _Cabé_, which may have been derived from _hoc habe_. [101] Pronounced _Hie_ Spy. [102] He who is "it." [103] The identical words in Switzerland--"eis, zwei, drü für mich;" or, "eis, zwei, drü für den oder den." [104] The formula of German children in New York, translated, runs: "Blind cow, we lead thee." "Where?" "To the stable." "What to do there?" "To eat soup." "I have no spoon." "Go get one." The "blind cow" then seeks her "spoon." [105] Professor F. J. Child has shown that _Billie Blin_, which occurs in English ballads, is originally a name of Odin, expressing the _gracious_ side (German _billig_) of the blind deity. But it seems to have passed into a bad use, as a murderous dwarf or fairy. [106] See his "Schulhaus an dem Krik." XII. _CERTAIN GAMES OF VERY LITTLE GIRLS._ Dans mon coeur il n'y a pas d'amour, Mais il y en aura quelque jour. _French Round._ No. 118. _Sail the Ship._ Two little girls, clinching fingers, and bracing their feet against each other, whirl rapidly round, a movement which they call "Sailing the ship." No. 119. _Three Around._