Today's Stichomancy for Jerry Lewis

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland:

the children squirm as they neared the end of the game. This game finished, the little girl called out: "Pat your hands and knees." The girls sat down in pairs and, after the style of "Bean Porridge Hot," clapped hands to the following rhyme: Pat your hands and knees, On January first,