Children's game

[Ruth Kreuzer]

> a Russian children's bedtime game ... tread of various animals on the kid's back..., etc.
> Can anyone fill me in on the details of this enthralling game, its name, its "rules" etc.
>

I don't know how "Russian" this game is, it is something I did in the US when I was a kid too. One of us kids would lie on his/her belly, the other would send all kinds of animal treads "running" across the person's back, and when that person was at the peak of anticipation, the
question would be asked, "Why are the animals all running? <pause for effect>  Because the elephants are coming!"...and of course the pounding on the back then began.
    R. Kreuzer

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