Why, exactly, do we have to pass the duchy from the left-hand side?
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Because if you don’t have a simple, hard and fast rule for duchy-passers, they can get confused and keep passing it back and forth between just a few, excluding some would-be duchy-passers. Duchy-passers can’t be expected to keep track of who has been passed a duchy or not; putting the rule in a catchy little song ensures that duchy-passing is fair and consistent, and nobody gets left out when the duchy is Bogarted.
J.
Yeah? So, not like I’m speaking from experience or anything like that (or maybe in the long-distant past, she might be), but after a duchy or two, the duchy-passers generally can’t tell right from left.
And they find that fact utterly hilarious.