“She said, and she said!
And what did she say?”
“She said that she loved.”
“And whom did she love?
Suppose she said she loved ——?”
“No! she never said that, whatever she said.”
An indefinite number of names were mentioned before the right one. When that came, to the surprise of the whisperer, the answer was—
“Yes! she said that.”
The secret was very simple, the name of a widow or widower was always given before that whispered.
The two next are played everywhere, but the words I believe are peculiar to Cornwall.