arrangement, six or seven children can take part in the fun.

Four players take their places in the different corners of the room,
while the fifth stands in the middle. If a greater number of children
wish to play, other parts of the room must be named "corners," so that
there is a corner for every one.

The fun consists in the players trying to change places without being
caught; but they are bound to call "Puss, puss," first, and to
beckon to the one they wish to change with. Directly they leave their
corners, the player in the center tries to get into one of them.

When the center player succeeds in getting into a corner, the one who
has been displaced has to take his place in the middle of the room.

* * * * *

THE POSTMAN

For this game all the players, except two, seat themselves in a
circle. One of the two left out is blindfolded and is called the
"Postman," the other is called the "Postmaster-General." Each of the
players seated in the circle chooses the name of a town, which the
"Post-master-General" writes down on a slip of paper, so that he may
not forget it. He then calls out the names of two towns, thus: "The
post from Aberdeen to Calcutta." At once, the players who have taken
those names must change places, and while doing so the "Postman" must
try to catch one of them. If he succeeds in doing so he takes his
place in the circle, having chosen a town for his name, and the one
caught becomes "Postman" in place of him. Sometimes "General post"