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Relishable outdoor games (Cont.)

NGoo Gin Hang (Tag)

........Children choose Father Snake and mother Snake. As for Mother Snake, they usually select the tallest and strongest to protect the other, kown as Little Snakes who would line up in procession. Father Snake stood facing his spouse, trying to ask a series of questions written in song so as to trap his own offsprings.

	Father Snake:		O Mother Snake!
	Mother Snake:		Yes?
	Father Snake:		From what pond do you drink?
	Mother Snake:		From the pond of sorrow (Thai=Soak).
	The children'll continue:		Rock and Rock (Thai=Yoak). (And the whole procession will rock)
	Father Snake:		O Mother Snake!
	Mother Snake:		Yes?
	Father Snake:		From what pond do you drink?
	Mother Snake:		From the pond of sand (Thai=Sine).
	The children'll continue:		Move on and move on (Thai=Yaai). (And the whole procession will move on)

NGoo Gin Hang (Tag)

	Father Snake continues:		O Mother Snake!
	Mother Snake:		Yes?
	Father Snake:		From what pond do you drink?
	Mother Snake:		From the pond of stone (Thai=Hin).
	The children will go on:		Fly here and fly there (Thai=Bin). (The whole procession flips their arms up and down.)
	Mother Snake ask:		Do you want to eat head or tail?
	Father Snake answer:		I'll eat the whole body.

........Then Father Snake attempts to catch the children while Mother Snake tries to protect them. This looks like real snake. If Father Snake can catch a child split from the line, the little one will be eaten. Sometimes The cruel Father may ask another question to the hapless child before he devours it, (just to be more amusing) like this:

	Father Snake:		You want to be with her or with me?
	Little Snake:		With her. The Father Snake will answer thus:
	Father Snake:		Set adrift on a raft

This means that it will have to wander for the whole life,
or else perish in the river. But if the Little Snake replies:

	Little Snake:		With you.
	Father Snake:		I'll break your neck and eat.

Whatever it chooses, the offspring will not make it.

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