Just as the young of different animals more nearly
resemble each other than do the adults, so too are children
very much alike in their games the world over ; picnicing
is not confined to Hampstead Heath, nor picking flowers
to botanists.
In the evening they all trooped back to the village to
dance in the mule square, and skip. Three or four little
girls would link arms and facing another similar line of
girls advance and retreat by turns, two steps and a kick,
singing, in spite of their harsh voices, a not unmusical
chorus ; the other side would then reply, and so it went on,
turn and turn about.
