No. 79 The Church and the Steeple
Little girls, with appropriate motions of the closed fist, or of the inverted hand with raised fingers, say,
Here is the church,
Here is the steeple,
Here is the parson,
And all the people.
An Italian finger-game well exhibits the different mental state of children in the two countries. The words are: “This is the Inferno, and this the Paradiso.” The fingers of the two hands, crossed within, represent the disturbed world of wretchedness; the back of the hands, turned, where all is calm, typify Paradise.