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Games 55 Broncho Tag Players are arranged the same as in THREE DEEP. The last man in the pair grasps the man standing in front of him about the waist, and by twisting him about tries to prevent the man being chased from getting in front of him. The front man tries to catch and hold the man chased. If the man succeeds, then the third man in the group is subject to being tagged as in THREE DEEP. Bird Store The guide is the storekeeper. One of the children is sent away from the group, and that child will be the buyer. While that child is absent, the guide assigns bird names to each of the group. The buyer then comes in to buy a bird. The guide makes a statement such as this—“T have a fine stock Of birds on hand to-day; I have an especially beautiful one with red breast, red back, and black wings.’’ If the buyer guesses “Tanager,” the child who has been assigned the name of “Tanager” in order to be “Bought” must first be “Caught” ; and previously there has been assigned a certain tree to which the child, when his name is mentioned, must run; the buyer being required to catch the bird before it reaches the tree. The children of the group are always on tiptoe because they never know what moment the buyer will call their name, and that is the moment when they must run to the assigned tree; and the buyer must always be on the alert to run after them, tagging them before they reach that point. Through it all, by the dexterity of the guide in asking the questions, and en- couraging the buyer to ask questions, and by the varied as- signment of bird names to the group, a great deal can be taught. Little Bird Wants a Tree The children are each assigned the name of a different song bird, each one standing at a certain tree. They exchange places with each other when the hawk who is “it” is not looking ; and the hawk tries to catch the little birds by tag- ging them. The bird caught becomes the hawk. The chil- dren who are little birds, exchange places with each other by giving their proper call note. The “caw” of the crow,