One child is chosen to be it. The other children sit in a circle, facing each
other, with their legs crossed.
The chosen child walks around
the outside of the circle and taps each child on the head, naming him either duck or
goose.
Most of the children will be named
duck.
When a child is named goose, that
child gets up and tries to tag the "it' before he gets back to the
goose's seat.
If the child gets to the goose's seat before he
is tagged, then the child who was the goose becomes it, and the game starts
over.
If the "it" gets tagged then he must sit in the middle
of the circle, called the mush pot, until somebody else gets tagged.
The person who was in the mush pot can then rejoin the
circle. The goose then becomes it.