The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Meeting the King and Queen of England

A kind of trick game. All the children are kept outside the room except two, a male and a female. These two sit on two chairs with about the space of another chair between them. The chairs are draped with a sheet in order that when the "king" and "queen" sit on the chairs, the vacant space is not visible.Then one by one the other children are brought in individually and requested by the king and queen to sit between them. Of course, the child falls . . . expecting to sit on a chair but instead finding only air.

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