Thus, a party of boys pitch on two who are unacquainted with the game, and ask them if they would not like to play "Beetle and Wedge." "The fun is to be the Beetle and the Wedge," they explain. The victims consenting, the Beetle is then driven against the Wedge, back to back, with a force that "sends him flying." This amusement belongs to Connecticut. In Philadelphia a boy is asked whether he prefers _mustard_ or _pepper_; in either case receiving corresponding personal inflictions. So in the English game of "Trades" a boy is made to guess the trade of the questioner, and is _hammered_, _planed_, or _rasped_, accordingly. No. 82. _Present and Advise._ All the children, except two, are seated in a row. One of these whispers in the ear of each child, "I present you with this." The second, in like manner, adds, "I advise you what to do with it." Another old whispering-game, belonging, like the preceding, to New York, is called "Sentiment." Each child tells his neighbor on the right the name of a person, and repeats to the one on the left a verse of poetry, usually of a sentimental character. The name and verse are then to be repeated together as in the former game. No. 83. _Genteel Lady._ "I, genteel lady, always genteel, come from the genteel lady, always genteel, beg leave to inform you that my ship has just come in from China laden with apricots." The next player has to repeat, adding some object beginning with _b_, such as biscuit; the next player one beginning with _c_, and so down the alphabet. If any one hesitates, or makes a mistake, a lighted "lamp-lighter" (New England, _spill_) is stuck in her hair, and she is the "one-horned," instead of the "genteel" lady; and for two mistakes the "two-horned" lady, and so on. This juxtaposition of curls and "lamp-lighters" is by no means always safe. _Georgia._ Of this game we observe that, like several amusements familiar in this State, it is of French origin.[92] No. 84. _Beast, Bird, or Fish._ A member of the party throws to another a knotted handkerchief, saying one of the above words, and counting up to ten. The catcher must answer in the given time the name of some animal of the kind required, not already cited by some other player. Whoever fails to reply while the counting is going on, is out of the game. After the names of commoner animals are exhausted, the game becomes a test of quickness and memory. No. 85. _Wheel of Fortune._ A picture of a wheel is drawn upon the slate, and a number written between each of its spokes. The eyes being then closed, the child whose turn it is raises a pencil in the air, twirling it, and saying, Tit for tat, Butter for fat, If you kill my dog I'll kill your cat.