tox and Geese
One player is chosen to be fox, another to be gander,
he remaining players all stand in single file behind
the gander, each with his hands upon the shoulders of
the one next in front. The gander tries to protect his
flock of geese from being caught by the fox and to do
this stretches out his arms and dodges around in any
way he sees fit to circumvent the efforts of the fox.
Only the last goose in the line may be tagged, unless
the line be very long, then the last five or ten players
may be tagged, as decided beforehand. It will be
seen that the geese all may co-operate with the gander
by doubling and redoubling their line to prevent the
fox from tagging the last goose. Should the fox tag

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the last goose or one of the last five or ten, if that be
permissible, that goose becomes fox and the fox be-
comes gander.
