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other side. Near the same place we have seen 

 lambs play the game which children call ' I'm the 

 King of the Castle/ This flock was in a field in 

 which seaweed was piled in heaps ready to be spread 

 on the field. A lamb would jump on to a heap of 

 seaweed and half-a-dozen others would attack the 

 position and try to drive him from it. Occasionally 

 no one would appear to dispute the possession of 

 the * castle ' and in that case the lamb playing ' king ' 

 jumped, capered and performed the most ridiculous 

 antics as if inviting competitors to ' come on.' 



Another flock of lambs, confined in a straw-yard, 

 had steeplechases over a row of feeding-troughs stuffed 

 with hay, right down the yard and back again. On 

 a Yorkshire moor they have been seen to race for 

 a quarter of a mile, round a spring and back to 

 the ewes. Fawns play a kind of cross-touch from 

 one side to the other, the * touch ' in each case being 

 given by the nose. This game was played for an 

 hour in the glades of Haddon Chase. Little pigs 

 are also great at combined play, which generally 

 takes the form of races. * Emulation ' seems to form 

 part of their amusement, for their races seem always 

 to have the winning of the first place as the object, 

 and are quite different from those combined rushes 

 for food or causeless stampedes in which little pigs 

 are wont to indulge. 



