beckoner's

Updated: May 22, 2025

This invitation might or might not be a genuine one, for sometimes the player on responding was received by the beckoner with hisses and other symptoms of distaste, and fell back ignominiously on the main body. But if you were the real object of the beckoner's affections, you were greeted with embraces and a cry of "I choose you!" and succeeded to the proud post of "It."

Ian Hay - The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton