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Crossing the Brook
(for 2 or more players)
If you draw two lines on the asphalt, about 2 feet apart then a brook will spring up between the lines. Children will then run in groups & try to jump the brook. They will scream as they are running. They will scream as they are jumping. If they land in the brook they must run home & change their stockings.
The successful jumpers are guided into a white bus & driven to wider & wider brooks. The last child to make a jump is the winner. Those that fall into the brooks must run home to change their stockings. But they are so far from home & the driver of the white bus will not speak to them. There is a light in the forest. Is that a distant fire or the buttery windows of a warm farmhouse? It is difficult to tell from here, where the sleet has just begun to fall.
Voting Day
(for 7 or more players)
One child is born President. All the other children must look at him. The children are divided into two groups. One group is painted white. The other black. The President remains unpainted. The white children & the black children each form into circles.
The President must run around one circle & touch each child. As he runs around the white-children circle the black-children circle asks in unison "What day is it?" The black children then yell out "Voting Day!" "Voting Day"
After the President has finished touching all the white-children he must do the same to the circle of black children. Then the white children ask in unison "Who do you vote for?" And the black children yell out "Lot's Wife!" "Lot's Wife!"
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