34. EASTER. 
Another device is a small crying face with 
jagged lines around it as if the shell were broken 
a little, but the prisoner could get no further. 
Or the shell may be filled with wax or clay, and 
broken away in the place where the face is to be 
modeled. 
Rose buds or tulips can be imitated with good 
success by painting an ege and gluing on tissue 
paper or other artificial leaves at the base; an 
acorn cup will represent the lower part of the 
calyx. 
EGG GAMES. 
At the pagan new year festivals many games 
were played with eggs, and some of them still 
survive. 
Hyde, in his Oriental Sports, says: 
“The sport consists in striking their eggs one 
against another, and the egg that breaks is won 
by the owner of the one that struck it, and 
so on.” 
The Romans had egg-games at their new year, 
in honor of Castor and Pollux, who were sup- 
