Children are divided into two teams, members
of each team lining up in a straight line. At each far end of
the room a bright red Christmas candle is placed on the table,
one table and one candle for each line.
The first one in each line is blindfolded, is led up to the
table, turned around three times, and then told to blow out
the candle. As soon as he has succeeded, he may take off the
blinder and run back to the line, where he puts the blinder
on the next player’s eyes, leads him up to the table,
turns him around three times, and tells him to blow out the
Christmas candle which has been relighted in the meanwhile.
This continues until all the players have blown out the Christmas
candle, but all the while in competition with the other players
of the other team, who are similarly occupied and similarly
handicapped.
The winning team is the one whose members first blow out the
candle. This may sound easy. In the turning around process Billy
has become so confused that he almost blows the piano over before
he realizes that perhaps he is not facing in the right direction!
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