LUCKY LEAF

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 27

LUCKY LEAF

A NEW GAME The children playing the game form in two long lines in the yard, standing face to face; one child is the ‘•Bimbo*’ or leader. Each child stands with his hands held open, behind him; the Bimbo walks up and down behind the two rows of players, with two small green leaves. The Bimbo puts into a child’s hand, very quietly, a leaf, which the child must take at once and hold closely. Then the Bimbo walks around to the other line, and drops another leaf into the hand of another child. The Bimbo walks on, and when he wishes to, he suddenly calls out, quickly: “Stop! Lucky leaf!” The two children who have the two leaves at once start to run. to the opposite line, and each child tries to put his leaf into the hand of another child before the Bimbo can catch him. The first child who is caught with a leaf is taken out of line by the Bimbo and is given the leaves and must act as the Bimbo. The last child to become a Bimbo, and to be caught with a leaf in his hand, is given a prize. The morning sits outside afraid. Until my mother draws the shade. Then it bursts in like a ball, Splashing sun all up the wall. And the evening is not night Until she’s tucked me in just right. And kissed me and turned out the light. Oh. if my mother went away. Who would start the night and day? —Dorothy Aldis. Carve your name on hearts and not on marble.