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The Craw admits of a good
deal of lively exercise, involving, as Dr. Chambers remarks, no more
than a reasonable portion of violence. One is selected to be craw. He
sits down upon the ground. and he and another boy then lay hold of the
two ends of a long strap or twisted handkerchief. The latter also takes
into his right hand another hard-twisted handkerchief, called the
Cout, and runs round the craw, and with the cout defends him against
the attack of the other boys, who, with similar coots, use all their
agility to get a slap at the craw. But, before beginning, the guard of
the craw must cry out:-
Ane, twa. three—mv craw's
free.
And the first whom he
strikes becomes craw, the former craw then becoming guard. When the
guard wants respite. he must cry:—
Ane, twa, three--my craws
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