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338 Collectanea.
Then a handkerchief is put over each person's eyes, so that they shall not see, and they take a stick, and try to smash the whole barrel. They must only try three times each, and when they do it they have some sort of prize.
"On the same day they take a flat cake and put a piece of string to it, and hang it up to the lamp in the middle of the room, and tie the hands behind the back and try to catch the cake with the mouth."
Alice Engholm.
April, 1906.
[Cf. Lund, Dajimark og Norges Historic; More Historic, Syvende Bog, pp. 168, 177.— N. W. T.]
