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 CONTENTS 
 
 Baste the Bear. 
 
 Tug of War. 
 
 King of the Castle. 
 
 Spanish Fly. 
 
 Tom Tiddler's Ground. 
 
 Drill Sergeant. 
 
 Touch. 
 
 Touch Wood, and Touch Iron. 
 
 Follow I\Iy Leader. 
 
 Orchestra. 
 
 How Do You Like It? 
 
 Capping Verses. 
 
 Conveyances. 
 
 Touch Wood and Whistle. 
 
 Grandmother's Cat. 
 
 French and English. 
 
 Leap Frog. 
 
 Acting Verbs, or Dumb Crambo. 
 
 Clumps. 
 
 The Laavter. 
 
 I Love ]My Love. 
 
 Searching By Music. 
 
 The Mammoth Sneeze. 
 
 Where Is Your Letter Going ? 
 
 The Flour Drummer. 
 
 The Emperor of IMorocco. 
 
 Duck on a Rock. 
 
 Quaker Meeting. 
 
 A Good Fat Hen. 
 
 The Vowels. 
 
 Ten Questions. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 Shouting Proverbs. 
 
 Quaker, How Is Thee ? 
 
 Dancing for the Cake. 
 
 Musical Neighbors. 
 
 Musical Fright. 
 
 Presbyterian Dance. 
 
 The Spanish Dwarf. 
 
 Magical Music. 
 
 What Am I Doing.? 
 
 Wh.at Is jMy Thought Like? 
 
 The Telescopic Giant. 
 
 Plum Pudding. 
 
 Stool of Repentance. 
 
 Person and Object. 
 
 The Cushion Dance. 
 
 After the Accident 
 
 The Baby Elephant. 
 
 The Giraffe. 
 
 A Menagerie. 
 
 The Wild Beast Show. 
 
 Egyptian Mummies. 
 
 Throwing Light. 
 
 The Artists' Menagerie. 
 
 The Auction. 
 
 The Jolly Miller. 
 
 Throwing Cards Into a Hat. 
 
 The Artist's Sale. 
 
 Metaiviorphoses. 
 
 Portraits. 
 
 Eyes. 
 
 Tricks. 
 
 The Resting Wand. 
 
 The Bird-Catcher. 
 
 The Dutch Concert. 
 
 Who Was He.? 
 
 This and That. 
 
 The Feeders. 
 
 Clairvoyance. 
 
 I Have a Chicken. 
 
 Flour and the Ring. 
 
 Pantomime. 
 
 Genteel Lady. 
 
 Buried Cities. 
 
 Adverbs. 
 
 The Critics. 
 
 Judge and Jury. 
 
 Positive and Comparative. 
 
 Sentiment. 
 
 Present and Advice. 
 
 The Musical Snail. 
 
 The Feather. 
 
 Alphabet Games. 
 
 Shadow Pictures. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 The Bumble Bee in the Garden. 
 
 Comes, It Comes. 
 
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POINTS or^LL gORT^ 
 
 
 
 BASTE THE BEAR. 
 
 From among the players one to take 
 the office of bear is to be selected, and he 
 chooses another player to act as his keeper. 
 The bear, with a cord or rope about four 
 or five feet lonof tied round his waist, has 
 then to take his place, crouching on his 
 hands and knees, within a circle of a yard 
 and a half, or thereabouts, in diameter ; the 
 keeper holding the further end of the rope. 
 The remainder of the players are then en- 
 titled to baste the bear, that is, to flog him 
 on the back with knotted handkerchiefs. If, 
 however, without the bear quitting the 
 circle or getting off his knees, either he 
 or his keeper can catch any player, that 
 player becomes bear, and the first bear is 
 released. Every bear has the right to select 
 from the other players his own keeper. 
 
 Considerable difficulty is often experi- 
 enced in catching a player in the limited 
 space allowed to the bear and his keeper ; 
 but on the other hand it requires a good 
 deal of nimbleness to give the bear a very 
 severe bastino^. 
 
 TUG OF WAR. 
 
 This is very similar to the game of 
 French and English, and differs from it 
 only in this respect, that when the first of 
 the losing team is pulled so far as the 
 •dividing line between the two parties the 
 tug is considered lost, and another trial 
 has to take place. The best two tugs out 
 
 of three is usually taken to decide a match, 
 but three out of five is sometimes thought 
 to offer a more satisfactory test of the rela- 
 tive abilities of the competing teams. 
 
 KING OF THE CASTLE. 
 
 A mound or hillock is to be selected as 
 the Kinof's Castle, which should be taken 
 possession of by any one of the players, 
 he proclaiming himself to be the proud 
 occupant of the position he holds, and at 
 the same time abusing his assailants by 
 quoting the following lines : — 
 
 " I'm the King of the Castle ; 
 Get down, you dirty rascal." 
 
 It is necessary for the King to be thus em- 
 phatic, for he has no trumpeter, no body- 
 guard, and no assistance whatever to aid 
 him to retain his position, whereas he is 
 assailed on all sides by the other players, 
 every one of whom is a claimant for the 
 possession of the Castle ; and each one, by 
 fair pulls and pushes, is entitled to do what 
 he can to dethrone the existing monarch, 
 and to take possession and proclaim him- 
 self King. No King, with such tremendous 
 odds against him, long retains the cares of 
 the State, but the game is really good fun 
 on a cold winter's day. 
 
 It is always to be remembered that only 
 pulls and pushes at the King are allowed ; 
 pulling at his clothes is distinctly forbidden, 
 under penalty of exclusion from the game. 
 
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 SPANISH FLY. 
 
 One player is to be selected as first back 
 down, and one fi'om the remainder to act 
 as leader. It does not matter who is leader, 
 and both he and the first back may be fixed 
 upon at random or by lot. 
 
 The players in turn leap over the back 
 that is down, and so soon as all have been 
 over, the process has to be gone through 
 again, except that some variation in the 
 manner of going over, or in the action that 
 is made to accompany the going over, must 
 be made with every round. There is a 
 certain order in the variations that it is 
 well to recognize ; but, if it is preferred, the 
 selection of the variations may be left to 
 him who acts as leader. The variations 
 most commonly practised, with their order, 
 are here given : — 
 
 1. The over is to be taken in the usual way, 
 with the left hand of the player towards the 
 head of the back. 
 
 2. Return from the opposite side. 
 
 3. The back has next to be gone over cross- 
 wise. 
 
 4. Return cross-wise from the opposite side. 
 
 5. Take the over as in No. i, holding cap in 
 hand, but in going over leave the cap on the 
 back. This must be done by every player, and 
 those going over after the first three or four 
 will have to exercise their skill and ingenuity 
 in finding a safe lodgment for the caps. If, 
 however, any player fails, he is down and be- 
 comes back. 
 
 6. Should the above be successfully done by 
 all, the players return in reverse order from the 
 opposite side, each one as he returns removing 
 his cap without disturbing the cap of any other 
 
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 player. The last to go over in No. 5 will, of 
 course, be the first to return in No. 6. 
 
 7, 8. The same done cross-wise in opposite 
 directions. 
 
 9, 10, II, 12. The same as 5, 6, 7, 8, using 
 handkerchiefs instead of caps. 
 
 13, 14, 15, 16. Take the over in the four dif- 
 ferent directions, throwing the cap in the air 
 while leaping, and catching it again after the 
 leap is finished. 
 
 17, 18, 19, 20. Again over in the various 
 directions, each time with the cap balanced 
 upside down on the head. 
 
 21, 22, 23, 24. Again over with the cap bal- 
 anced as before, but in making the over, drop 
 the cap so as not to allow it to touch the cap 
 of any other player already on the ground, and 
 leaping clear of every cap. In the rounds 22 
 and 24 the cap is not balanced on the head, 
 but instead when the rounds 21 and 23 have 
 been successfully made, each player in his 
 proper turn picks up his cap with his teeth, 
 and with his back turned to the boy that is 
 down, throws the cap over his own shoulder 
 and over the back. The leap has then to be 
 taken from the spot where the cap fell in the 
 rounds 21 and 23. If a cap when thrown in 
 this way touches the cap of any other player, 
 the owner of the cap thrown is down. 
 
 Many other varieties may be mentioned, 
 but the above are the most usual, and it rarely 
 happens but that in some one of these 
 some player will fail, and so release the 
 boy that is down, and the game then re- 
 commences. As the leader's position is 
 the easiest, the back when released takes 
 leader's place, the other players going 
 down one. This game should be played 
 by good-natured boys, as any show of 
 temper spoils all the fun. 
 
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 TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND. 
 One boy is to be selected as Tom Tid- 
 dler, who should have a considerable base 
 or territory allotted to him, and in which are 
 supposed to be vast stores of the precious 
 metals. The other players promiscuously 
 invade this territory, and as if they were 
 picking up and pocketing the treasure, call 
 attention to themselves by shouting — 
 
 " Here I stand, in Tom Tiddler's land. 
 Picking up gold and silver." 
 
 If Tom can touch any player while tres- 
 passing within his bounds, that player be- 
 comes Tom Tiddler, the guardian of the 
 imaginary wealth buried in the soil. 
 
 DRILL SERGEANT. 
 
 The players arrange themselves in a 
 line, and having selected one of their num- 
 ber to act as the Drill Sergeant, proceed to 
 carry out his instructions, and to show 
 themselves to the best of their ability to be 
 a well-drilled squad. The Sergeant's in- 
 structions are simple in the extreme, but it 
 is frequently found they are difficult of ex- 
 ecution. They never vary, and are com- 
 prised in the double order of "Do as I do," 
 and " Don't laugh." It will be readily un- 
 derstood that what is only strange if per- 
 formed by one boy standing by himself, be- 
 comes highly ridiculous and absurd when 
 done in time by a row of say ten to twenty, 
 and the result is, as may be expected, that 
 the Sergeant sets such feats to be performed 
 as will soon provoke a titter, if not a loud 
 guffaw, from some member or members of 
 the squad under his orders. The member 
 
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 laughing is set out, and as soon as half the 
 squad is so disposed of the remainder jump 
 upon their backs, having earned the right 
 by a greater command over their risible 
 nerves to a ride pick-a-back fashion round 
 the playground, the Sergeant, armed Avith 
 a knotted handkerchief, urgrinof on the un- 
 willing steeds by a timely application of 
 the handkerchief to that portion of the lag- 
 gard's person that is most get-at-able. 
 
 It should be understood that the Drill 
 Sergeant may set no feat that involves 
 moving away from the position he first 
 took up. 
 
 TOUCH. 
 
 In the various games of Touch, the 
 player whose office it is to touch another 
 is known by the descriptive pronoun "He," 
 spelled with a capital H. 
 
 In the simple game of Touch, " He," 
 tries to overtake and touch some other 
 player ; which, when done, the player 
 touched becomes " He," and proceeds him- 
 self to touch some one. The players gen- 
 erally must keep their wits about them to 
 know who "He" may happen for the 
 moment to be, as the office shifts from one 
 to another very rapidly. 
 
 TOUCH WOOD, AND TOUCH IRON. 
 
 In these versions of the game, the play- 
 ers are safe from " He " during the time 
 they may be touching wood, or touching 
 iron, as the case may be, according to the 
 game being played. 
 
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 FOLLOW MY LEADER. 
 Choose one out of the number of players 
 to act as leader, and as upon him will rest 
 the whole responsibility of the game, and 
 upon him will depend mainly what amount 
 of fun and amusement will be had out of 
 the game, see that he is both capable of 
 leading and of a lively and amusing tem- 
 perament. When the leader has been 
 chosen, the remaining players arrange 
 themselves behind him in single file ; and 
 
 nence that excellence in performance as 
 well as attention can secure, the playmates 
 of the delinquent will be interested in en- 
 forcing this rule, and seeing that he takes 
 the position assigned to those who shirk 
 what the leader has done. 
 
 The leader should be considerate of the 
 weaker ones among his followers, caring 
 more to secure a willing following and to 
 inspire each with confidence in himself, 
 rather than to set astounding or hazardous 
 
 the fun and sport then commence. What- 
 ever the leader may do and wherever the 
 leader may go, that the followers have to 
 do and there they have to go. Any one 
 failing in either of these respects is to be 
 sent to the end of the line, and as every 
 one will be anxious to secure the pre-emi- 
 
 feats — feats easy, perhaps, for an active 
 big boy, which may probably be dangerous 
 for a high-spirited youngster to attempt, 
 but which it would be humbling to him to 
 fail at, having once joined in the game, 
 and thereby expressed his willingness to 
 follow wherever led. 
 
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 ORCHESTRA. 
 Select a conductor, who is to arrange 
 the tolayers in a semi-circle, each being 
 assigned to play some imaginary instru- 
 ment, and instructed how to play it. The 
 conductor first calls on his orchestra to 
 tune, and then, naming some lively air, 
 begins to hum it, at the same time waving 
 a baton, when all the players must join in, 
 imitating by voice and gesture, their in- 
 struments, — such as violin, harp, cornet, 
 tenor horn, trombone, flute, piccolo, clario- 
 net, double bass, drum, cymbals, etc. Solos 
 may be called for, and the person repre- 
 senting the instrument named must respond 
 or pay a forfeit, as must all who fail to play 
 when called on, or who break down by 
 lauehinsf- There are few games which 
 afford more fun than this, if played in good 
 spirits and in a lively manner, and a fairly 
 good mimic will be pretty sure to bring 
 down the house. 
 
 HOW DO YOU LIKE IT. 
 
 One of the company leaves the room, 
 and the others fix upon some word to be 
 guessed by him when he returns. He then 
 goes around, asking each of the company 
 " How do you like it ? " It is better to 
 select a word having a variety of meanings, 
 as it is more difficult to guess. Suppose 
 the word " stick " to be selected. One 
 might answer that he liked it when he was 
 out walking ; another, when he was sealing 
 a letter ; another, when he met a savage 
 dog, etc. If the questioner is unable to 
 guess the word the first time, he goes 
 around again, asking, " When do you like 
 it?" and if not successful this time, he 
 asks, " Where do you like it .''" Failing in 
 three trials, he must retire and let another 
 word be selected. Succeeding, he must 
 point out the person who gave him the 
 clue, who must pay a forfeit, and go out to 
 be puzzled in turn. 
 
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 CAPPING VERSES. 
 
 Every one at the table is supplied with 
 a sheet of paper and a pencil, at the top 
 of which is written by each player a line 
 of poetry either original or from memory. 
 The paper must then be folded down so as 
 to conceal what has been written, and 
 passed on to the right ; at the same time 
 the neighbor to whom it is passed must be 
 told what is the last word written in the 
 concealed line. Every one must then write 
 under the folded paper a line to rhyme 
 with the line above, being ignorant, of 
 course, of what it is. Thus the game is 
 carried on, until the papers have gone once 
 or twice round the circle, when they can 
 be opened and read aloud. 
 
 CONVEYANCES. 
 
 To do justice to this game it will be 
 necessary for the players to call to mind 
 all they have ever read or heard about the 
 various modes of traveling in all the four 
 quarters of the globe, because every little 
 detail will be of use. 
 
 The business commences by one of the 
 company announcing that he intends start- 
 ing on a journey, when he is asked whether 
 he will go by sea or by land. To Avhich 
 quarter of the globe .? Will he go north, 
 south, east, or west ? and last of all — what 
 conveyance does he intend to use .-* 
 
 After these four questions have been 
 answered, the first player is called upon to 
 name the spot he intends to visit. 
 
 Mountain traveling may be described, 
 the many ingenious methods of which are 
 
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 so well known to visitors to Italy and 
 Switzerland. 
 
 The wonderful railway up the Righi 
 need not be forgotten ; mul^ traveling, 
 arm-chairs carried by porters, and the 
 dangerous-looking ladders which the Swiss 
 peasants mount and remount so fearlessly 
 at all times of the year, in order to 
 scale the awful precipices, will each be 
 borne in mind. In the cold regions the 
 sledges drawn by reindeer may be em- 
 ployed, or the Greenland dogs, not forget- 
 ting the tremendous skates, that have the 
 appearance of small canoes, used by the 
 Laplanders ; and also the stilts, which are 
 used by some of the poor French people 
 who live in the 'west of their country. 
 Indeed, it is amazing how many different 
 methods of conveyance have been con- 
 trived at one time or another for the benefit 
 of us human beings. 
 
 In Spain and other places there are the 
 diligences ; in Arabia the camels ; in China 
 the junks ; at Venice the gondolas. 
 
 Then, to come home, we have balloons, 
 bicycles, wheelbarrows, perambulators, and 
 all kinds of carriages, so that no one need 
 be long in decidingf what mode of travelinof 
 he shall for the time adopt. As soon as 
 the four questions have been answered, 
 should the first player be unable to name 
 what country he will visit he must pay a 
 forfeit, and the opportunity is passed on to 
 his neiorhbor. 
 
 This game may be made intensely amus- 
 ing, as will be proved by trial ; and at 
 the same time a very great amount of 
 instruction may be derived from it. 
 
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 TOUCH WOOD AND WHISTLE. 
 
 This version of the game of Touch re- 
 quires not only that to ensure safety from 
 " He " the players should touch wood, but 
 that they should also whistle. So soon as 
 a player ceases to touch wood or to whistle, 
 he is liable to fall a prey and be converted 
 into " He." 
 
 In some parts of the country, gentlemen 
 who happen to wear a white hat appear to 
 have a peculiar effect upon the players, who 
 cry, " Touch wood and whistle — man with 
 a white hat! " And until wood is touched 
 and a whistle perforrned, and so long as 
 the white-hatted person is in sight, the 
 unfortunate boy unable to accomplish these 
 things is duly pinched. 
 
 GRANDMOTHERS CAT. 
 
 This is an excellent pastime for sharpen- 
 ing the wits of a company, and will readily 
 determine who possesses the greatest facil- 
 ity in the use of adjectives. Each mem- 
 ber, in the first place, is required in his 
 turn to apply to " My Grandmother's Cat " 
 an adjective the spelling of which com- 
 mences with the letter a. Thus, one may 
 say, " My Grandmother's Cat is an c?////- 
 (/nafed cat," the next may say, " My Grand- 
 mother's Cat is an antagoiiistic cat," and 
 so on, each member in his turn applying 
 an adjective that has not been used before. 
 When a member is unable to respond readily 
 when his turn arrives he must retire, 
 and the game is continued by the others 
 until all the adjectives beginning with a 
 that can be thought of have been used, 
 
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 and all the members have retired. All 
 then start anew with adjectives beginning 
 with b, and so on. A dictionary should 
 not be resorted to. 
 
 FRENCH AND ENGLISH. 
 
 This is a game requiring strength com- 
 bined with skill and judgment. Besides 
 players the only material required is a long 
 stout rope. Any reasonable number may 
 join in the game, but the number most con- 
 venient, perhaps, is sixteen, divided into 
 eight a side. The two most competent 
 players should be selected to act as cap- 
 tains, and to officer the respective sides. 
 They should alternately select their men, 
 after having tossed for the first choice. A 
 short line is then to be drawn and the rope 
 placed across it, one half being on one 
 side of the line, and the other half on the 
 other side. The captains then take their 
 places opposite to each other, alongside 
 the rope, with their men behind them in 
 Indian file, each- about a yard apart, and 
 all lift the rope with their right hands, 
 the foremost man (generally the captain) 
 on each side being about a yard and a half 
 from the dividing line. A secure foothold is 
 to be obtained by all, and upon the words, 
 " One, two, three, ready, pull boys," being 
 given, each side does all that strength, skill, 
 and judgment can do to pull its opponents 
 over the line. If a player is pulled across 
 the line he becomes a prisoner, and retires, 
 the game then being virtually over ; for if 
 eight succeed in pulling successfully against 
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 ingf seven will not have much chance to 
 withstand their victorious opponents. It 
 does, nevertheless, happen frequently that 
 the first victory encourages undue confi- 
 dence and laxity, and if the captain of the 
 weakened side is wise he can sometimes 
 so advise his men as to enable them to pull 
 over their antagonists in spite of the odds ; 
 but still, it must always be the case that the 
 chief interest in the game rests with the 
 first pull, and any tricks to be practised can 
 be performed with more real effect then 
 than after a man has been lost. 
 
 Sometimes it is allowed that a prisoner 
 may be ransomed by any one of the same 
 side offering himself in exchange, and it is 
 generally well to permit this, for since the 
 captain is usually first capture, his loss is 
 so serious as to detract from the interest of 
 the game by depriving one side of its most 
 important officer. 
 
 LEAP FROG. 
 
 This is the simplest of all those games 
 which consist in one boy giving a back for 
 others to fly over, and is the most satis- 
 factory in that all players are treated alike. 
 It is capital exercise and good recreation 
 on a winter's day when kept merrily going. 
 
 The players decide the order in which 
 they stait; the first boy then makes a back 
 for the others to go over, and each boy, as 
 he goes over the last back down, makes 
 a back himself for all the players to go 
 over. He is then entitled to go over the 
 backs of all the others, and so on, the mo- 
 tion being kept up until stopped by the 
 school or dinner-bell, as the case may be. 
 
 The distance between the backs should 
 be about twelve or fifteen yards, and every 
 player should give just such a back, high 
 or low, as is required of him by the boy 
 to take the leap. 
 
 
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 ACTING VERBS or DUMB CRAMBO. 
 Half the company leave the room, while 
 the other half agree upon some verb. The 
 leader of the retired half is then called in 
 and told that the verb agreed upon rhymes, 
 for instance, withyf^?. He then retires and 
 consults with his forces as to what the verb 
 probably is. They decide to try the verb 
 b7iy, and going into the room begin to buy 
 of each other in pantomime, not a word to 
 
 The illustration shows the acting of a_ 
 verb that rhymes with brink. 
 
 CLUMPS. 
 Clumps is a very good game for a large 
 party. The company divide into two sides^ 
 or clumps, and one chosen from each goes, 
 out of the room. The two decide to think 
 of some one thing, and then come in 
 
 be spoken on either side, under penalty of 
 forfeit. If they are acting the verb fixed 
 upon, the spectators clap ; if not, they hiss, 
 and the visitors must retire, to come in and 
 act some other verb. Supposing the verb 
 to be cry, when they come in and pretend 
 to cry, the spectators clap and then retire 
 to act a verb fixed upon by the other side. 
 Other verbs rhyming withyf^ would be die, 
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 again, and each stands in front of the 
 clump opposite to that from which they 
 were chosen, so that they may not help 
 their own side. The sides are allowed to 
 ask twenty questions, and the side which- 
 first euesses the thing- chosen take into it 
 the two who had gone out. One from each 
 is again chosen, and the game is continued 
 until one side has taken all the members- 
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 THE LAWYER. 
 
 Each gentleman chooses a partner, and 
 then all stand in a circle, except one person 
 in the center, who becomes the lawyer. He 
 is to ask questions of any person in the 
 company ; but the answer in every case 
 must be given, nothy the person addressed, 
 but by his or her partner. If the person 
 spoken to makes answer, or if the partner 
 fails to do so promptly, the person so 
 answering, or failing, as the case may be, 
 must take the lawyer's place. By asking 
 questions rapidly, and turning quickly from 
 one side of the company to the other, some 
 one is sure to get caught^. 
 
 Sometimes it is more convenient for the 
 company to sit in a double line, face to 
 face, each one opposite his partner. 
 
 I LOVE MY LOVE. 
 
 This is a game which, if kept up sharply, 
 will be very interesting. The leader begins 
 by saying, " I love my love with an A, 
 because she's accomplished ; I hate her with 
 an A, because she's absurd" — or because 
 of some other qualities described by words 
 beginning with the letter A. The next 
 player repeats the same sentences, except 
 that she uses the letter B, and words begin- 
 ning with that letter, in describing her 
 love. For instance, " I love my love with 
 a B, because he's bright ; I hate him with 
 a B, because he's barbarous." The next 
 player uses the letter C, and so on, in 
 alphabetical order, except the letter X, 
 which will have to be skipped because 
 there is no English word beginning with 
 
 42 , 
 
 that letter. The game may go around the 
 circle, or each player who repeats the sen- 
 tences may call on whom he pleases to 
 continue the game. This keeps the entire 
 company on the watch, and, if the responses 
 are prompt, adds to the interest of the 
 
 game. 
 
 SEARCHING BY MUSIC 
 
 Is a very pleasant and interesting game. 
 One of the company retires from the room, 
 and a handkerchief, ring, charm, bracelet, 
 or other small article, is hidden. Then 
 some one sits at the piano, and the absent 
 one is called in, and told to search for the 
 missing object. The musician is to indi- 
 cate by the strains upon the piano, when 
 the searcher approaches the hidden article. 
 If he is away from it, the music is low 
 and mournful ; as he comes near to it the 
 music becomes louder and lively, bursting 
 into a triumphant strain as he discovers 
 the prize. 
 
 THE MAMMOTH SNEEZE. 
 
 If there are enough people to take part, 
 "the mammoth sneeze " will have a very 
 forcible and laughable effect. Divide the 
 company into three divisions, of five or six 
 each. The persons in the first division are 
 to say, when the signal is given, " Hish ! " 
 emphasizing the first "h;" the second divi- 
 sion must say "Ash!" while the third says 
 "Osh!" The leader counts "One, two, 
 three," and at the last word the three 
 divisions shout their syllables with all the 
 force they can muster. 
 
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 WHERE IS YOUR LETTER GOING? 
 This is a lively game, and will cause a 
 great deal of fun. One of the company 
 becomes postman, and is given pencil and 
 paper. The others take seats in chairs ar- 
 ranged in a circle. The postman then goes 
 to each of the company, giving every one 
 the name of some city or town, which he 
 notes on the paper. He then announces, 
 for instance, " My letter is going between 
 Boston and Chicago." Immediately the 
 names are mentioned, the persons repre- 
 senting those cities must change places, 
 the postman at the same time endeavoring 
 to get a seat. If he succeeds, the person 
 losing becomes postman, and announces 
 letters eoingf between New York and San 
 Francisco, Lowell and New Orleans, and 
 other places, the persons named changing 
 seats every time. Failure to answer to 
 name involves a forfeit. Should the post- 
 man say, " I have letters to go all over the 
 country," every person in the room must 
 rise and change seats, and in the scramble 
 the postman is pretty sure to get a seat. 
 Any one failing to change, must pay a for- 
 feit. Many laughable scenes are sure to 
 occur. 
 
 THE FLOUR DRUMMER. 
 One person becomes the flour drummer, 
 and tries to sell his flour to members o( 
 the party, who must answer promptly ever)- 
 question he asks, but without using the 
 words Jloiir, /, yes, and no. This will require 
 sharp watching, as some one is almost sure 
 to get caught. The drummer might ask, 
 " Do you want any flour to-day ? ' The 
 
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 answer, " No, I don't care for any," would 
 involve two forfeits for using / and Jio. 
 " Don't care for any," would avoid the for- 
 bidden words. The drummer may vary 
 his questions, praise his goods, and in 
 every way endeavor to get some one to 
 use one of the words. The person so 
 doing must take his place and also pay a 
 forfeit. 
 
 THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO. 
 
 This is one of those games in which 
 the art consists in preserving an immutable 
 gravity, under every provocation to laugh. 
 In "The Emperor of Morocco," two of the 
 players, generally one of each sex, advance 
 with measured steps into the middle of 
 the room, ceremoniously salute each other, 
 and the following dialogue takes place, the 
 speakers being compelled to look one 
 another full in the face : 
 
 F/rs^ Player. — The Emperor of Morocco 
 is dead. 
 
 Second Player. — I'm very sorry for it. 
 
 First Player. — He died of the gout in 
 his left great toe. 
 
 Second Player. — I'm very sorry for it. 
 
 First Player. — And all the court are to 
 cro into mourninLT, and wear black rings 
 through their noses. 
 
 Second Player. — I'm very sorry for it. 
 
 They then bow again, and retire to their 
 places, while another pair comes forward 
 to go through the same impressive dia- 
 logue ; and so on, till the game has gone 
 all round the circle, a forfeit being the 
 penalty for the slightest approach to a 
 
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 DUCK ON A ROCK. 
 A rough lump of stone is set up for a 
 block, and the players should each be pro- 
 vided with a stone about the size of a base- 
 ball. A line is then to be drawn about 
 fifteen to twenty yards from the block, the 
 ground beyond the line being known as 
 " home." The players then standing at 
 home " pink for duck," that is, they throw 
 their stone towards the block, and he whose 
 
 cessful in dislodging the duck-stone. When 
 the duck-stone is knocked off a general 
 stampede to get home takes place, but if 
 the Duck can replace his stone on the 
 block and touch anyone running home, the 
 one so running is made Duck ; but some- 
 times when a sharp player is so touched, 
 he will immediately run and place his stone 
 on the block, and touch the former Duck 
 again, before he has had time to recover 
 
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 stone remains farthest from the block is 
 first Duck. 
 
 Duck then places his stone upon the 
 block and takes his place beside it. The 
 remaining players then throw their stones 
 so as to try and knock off the duck-stone, 
 but if their throws fail their stones are 
 seized by the Duck, and they cannot touch 
 them, except at the risk of being made 
 Duck, unless one of their fellows is suc- 
 
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 his stone and run home. Upon this being 
 done the new Duck does not lose his 
 freedom. 
 
 If, however, as often happens, Duck's 
 stone remains secure on top of the block 
 after all have had their throw at it, the 
 players are at Duck's mercy, and have to 
 make terms with him to get home again. 
 They, or any one of them, may propose to 
 take a jtimp home ; that is, to take the 
 
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 Stone between the feet and make for home 
 so loaded, by short jumps ; or a " heeler" 
 may be asked for, which is a kick by the 
 heel of the stone homeward ; or another 
 alternative is to apply for a " sling," which 
 consists in working the stone on to the 
 fore part of the/oo^, and from there giving 
 it a jerk towards home. If in attempting 
 either of these the player fails in the 
 "jump" by dropping the stone, or in the 
 " heeler," or " sling," by heeling or sling- 
 ing the stone short of home, then he be- 
 comes Duck, and the block being by that 
 means uncovered, the remaining players 
 are all released and run home. 
 
 When any player is attempting a "jump," 
 a " heeler," or a " sling," no other player 
 must attempt to get home, as Duck's atten- 
 tion will be fully taken up with the one 
 who is endeavoi'mof to come to terms with 
 him. 
 
 QUAKER MEETING. 
 
 In this game the girls must sit in a row 
 on one side of the room, and do nothing 
 but twirl their thumbs, If they talk or 
 laugh they must pay forfeits. The boys 
 sit on the other side of the room, and the 
 leader says, " Verily, verily, I do say," 
 which must be repeated by every person 
 on his side of the room, each slowly twirl- 
 ing his thumbs. The leader then says, 
 " That I must go this very day ; " to be 
 repeated as before. The leader, " To visit 
 my sick brother, Zach-ah-ri-ay." Repeated 
 by all the boys. Then the leader gets up 
 and kneels in the middle of the room, 
 facing the girls, slowly twirling his thumbs, 
 and looking very solemn. His action is 
 imitated by the next boy, who kneels beside 
 the leader, just as close to him as it is pos- 
 sible to get. All the other boys then join 
 
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 in the row, all still slowly twirling their 
 thumbs. When all have been kneeling in 
 silence about a minute, the leader gives a 
 sudden push on the one next him, when 
 the whole row will go down like a 
 pack of cards. The girls are strictly for- 
 bidden to laugh or to stop twirling their 
 thumbs, under penalty of forfeits. 
 
 A GOOD FAT HEN. 
 
 This is a game which tests the quickness 
 of the memory, and is likely to be pro- 
 ductive of numerous forfeits. The leader 
 gives a sentence, which must be repeated 
 correctly and without laughing, by every 
 one in the room. The leader then adds to 
 it, and the whole is repeated as before. 
 For instance : The leader says, " A good 
 fat hen." This is repeated by each player. 
 The leader then says : "Two ducks and a 
 good fat hen," which must be repeated by 
 each in order. The next addition is : 
 " Three wild geese," which must be re- 
 peated by all, with the sentences previously 
 given. Then comes " Four plump par- 
 tridges;" next, "Five pouting pigeons;" 
 next, " Six long-legged cranes ; " next, 
 " Seven green parrots ; " next, " Eight 
 screeching owls ; " and last, " Nine ugly 
 turkey buzzards." So that, the last time 
 the repetition goes around, it will be like 
 this : " Nine ugly turkey buzzards, eight 
 screeching owls, seven green parrots, six 
 long-legged cranes, five pouting pigeons, 
 four plump partridges, three wild geese, 
 two ducks and a good fat hen." Any omis- 
 sion or hesitation imposes a forfeit. 
 
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 THE VOWELS. 
 This is a game which will give good 
 exercise to the mind. Some player begins 
 by asking a question of the person next 
 him, which must be answered in words not 
 containing any one vowel which the ques- 
 tioner interdicts. Thus : The player says, 
 " Have you heard Patti ? " Answer with- 
 out " A." The reply would be, " Yes, 
 but only once," or "No, I've not." Then 
 the one who replied asks of his next 
 neighbor, for instance, " Were you ever 
 in Europe?" Answer without "O." The 
 reply, "I have never been there," would 
 avoid the vowel interdicted. Thus the 
 questions and answers go around the circle. 
 Any person giving an answer containing 
 the forbidden vowel, must pay a forfeit. 
 
 TEN QUESTIONS. 
 
 The company may be divided into sides, 
 each half selecting a word, the object of 
 one side being to find out the word selected 
 by the other. The words must be names 
 of something well known to both sides ; 
 words of two or more meanings, such as 
 pen, post, mail, rail, deer, are the best to 
 select, as the answers may be more varied, 
 and the word thus more difficult to guess. 
 Each side asks questions of the other, 
 which should be answered in a plain, mat- 
 ter-of-fact, truthful way. A record of the 
 questions asked is to be kept, and the side 
 guessing the hidden word, in the fewest 
 questions, is victorious. 
 
 The game of Tiuenty Qticstioiis is played 
 in the same manner, double the number of 
 questions being granted. 
 
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 PROVERBS. 
 
 This is a guessing game. One of the 
 company leaves the room, while the others 
 select some proverb, such as " There's 
 many a slip between the cup and the lip ; " 
 " When doctors disagree, who shall decide .''" 
 " All is not gold that glitters." The words 
 making the proverb are assigned, one to 
 each player ; if there are not enough words 
 to go round, assign them over twice. Then 
 the one who has retired must be called in, 
 and he is to ask a question of each player, 
 the answer in every case to include the 
 word assigned to the person addressed. 
 Supposing the proverb was " All is not gold 
 that glitters," the first question might be, 
 " How do you do this evening?" and the 
 answer, " Oh, I'm all right." The second, 
 " What time is it ? " and the answer, " It is 
 ten o'clock." The third, " When are you 
 goinof to Boston ? " and the answer, " I'm 
 not going for several days." The fourth, 
 " How old are you?" and the answer, " I'm 
 about twenty-six, but many gold dollars 
 are older." By this time the guesser would 
 probably have a clue to the proverb, and 
 would venture a guess. If he should hit 
 it right, the person who gave him the clue 
 must pay a forfeit ; if he should fail to 
 guess the proverb in three attempts, he 
 must pay a forfeit and retire to become the 
 questioner again. 
 
 SHOUTING PROVERBS. 
 One of the party leaves the room, while 
 the others select some proverb, the words 
 being assigned to members of the com- 
 
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 pany. Should there be more persons than 
 words, assign the same words to two or 
 more persons, as In the game of " Pro- 
 verbs," but the number of words must not 
 exceed the number of players. The per- 
 son who is out of the room must then be 
 called in, and at some signal previously 
 agreed upon, such as dropping a handker- 
 chief by the leader, or counting " one, tAvo, 
 three," all must shout in chorus the words 
 assigned them, and the person called in 
 must guess the proverb from the din. If 
 he does not succeed he must retire and try 
 again ; but if he does, the person whose 
 voice gave him the clue to the proverb 
 must take his place. 
 
 QUAKER HOW IS THEE? 
 
 The company sit in a circle, repeating 
 the following dialogue : 
 
 " Quaker, Quaker, how is thee ? " 
 " Very well I thank thee." 
 " How's thy neighbor next to thee .'' " 
 " I don't know, but I'll go and see." 
 
 The first speaker makes a rapid motion 
 with his riQ;-ht hand — after pfoinp; around 
 the circle, the same is done with the left 
 hand, etc., till every member' of the body 
 is in motion. 
 
 Sometimes the words are : 
 
 " My father sent me to you, sir^ 
 " What for, sir ? " 
 " To do as I do sir." 
 
 Or, 
 
 " Abraham has seven sons, seven sons has 
 
 Abraham." 
 " They do as I do, they do as I do." 
 
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 DANCING FOR THE CAKE. 
 
 The cake is placed on a table and the 
 dancers begin all at once in a large ring to 
 dance around. He who holds out longest 
 wins the cake. 
 
 MUSICAL NEIGHBORS. 
 Half of the company are blindfolded 
 and seated in every alternate chair. The 
 others seat themselves in the vacant 
 chairs, and sing some popular tune. 
 Those blind-folded must name their 
 right-hand neighbor. 
 
 MUSICAL FRIGHT. 
 
 In this game a young lady sits at 
 the piano, and the chairs in the room 
 are arranged in a double row, backs to 
 backs, there being one less chair than 
 players. The pianist strikes up a lively 
 tune, while the players, hand in hand, 
 dance around the chairs in time to the 
 music. Suddenly, in the middle of a 
 bar, the pianist stops playing, when all 
 the players must let go hands and 
 scramble for seats. As there is one K?s 
 seat than there are players, some one 
 will be left. He is then out of the 
 eame. The number of seats must now 
 be reduced one, and the game be con- 
 tinued as before, and so on, until only 
 one chair is left. The contest between 
 the last two persons to see which shall 
 get the chair will be quite amusing. 
 
 If there is no musical instrument in 
 the room, some one may sing, or read, 
 or recite a poem, stopping very suddenly. 
 
 PRESBYTERIAN DANCE. 
 Form in a circle, dancing the grand 
 chain, or right and left all around at the 
 same time singing " Auld Lang Syne." 
 Begin very slow measure, gradually in- 
 creasing until a romp ensues. 
 
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 THE SPANISH DWARF. 
 
 A young lady's hands are to be put into 
 a child's socks and little shoes. She is to 
 disguise her face — if known to the compa- 
 ny — as effectually as possible. To do this, 
 a piece of black sticking-plaster put over one 
 of the front teeth, or over both, will prove 
 very effectual ; a little rouge or whitening 
 the face will also help. Then she puts on a 
 bonnet, shawl, &c. Another player stands 
 behind her, and passes her arms round her. 
 They stand behind curtains which are 
 drawn so as to conceal the young lady be- 
 hind entirely, except her arms, and a table 
 is placed in front of both. The front player 
 puts her hands, dressed in shoes, on the 
 table ; the little girl behind her supplies, as 
 we have said, arms and hands to the fig- 
 ure ; and, if well managed, when the visit- 
 ors are summoned " to see the dwarf who 
 
 tells fortunes," they will be struck by the 
 illusion of the pigmy apparently standing 
 on the table. 
 
 The dwarf is expected to be funny 
 enough to make the guests laugh heartily. 
 
 A male dwarf can be made by arranging 
 shawls or curtains about a table behind 
 which one sits with his hands in a pair of 
 boots resting on the table. A boy behind 
 the man reaches his arms over the other's 
 shoulders. A loose cloak is arranged over 
 all. 
 
 MAGICAL MUSIC. 
 One goes out and a handkerchief is hid- 
 den. One plays on the piano and indicates 
 by the music when the finder is near the 
 hiding place. When far away, the music 
 is low, but becomes louder as the right 
 spot is approached. This can be varied by 
 giving the player something to do. 
 
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 WHAT AM I DOING? 
 
 Six, seven, eight, or more players take 
 their seats in a straight row. Behind 
 them the person chosen to lead the game 
 takes his stand. Placing himself exactly 
 behind the player seated on the top chair, 
 he then begins to conduct himself in the 
 most absurd manner possible ; for instance, 
 making some ridiculous grimace, shaking 
 his fist, or any other comical antic that may 
 suggest itself to him. After doing this for 
 a minute or two, he then says to the player 
 seated before him, "What am I doing?" 
 Should the unfortunate individual be un- 
 able to answer correctly he must stand up, 
 and until permission be given him to 
 desist, must imitate in silence the antics 
 the nature of which he was unable to dis- 
 cover. More frequently than not the 
 guesses are quite wide of the mark, con- 
 sequently the spectacle is most laughable 
 when five or six of the company are all 
 occupying the enviable position above 
 described. 
 
 WHAT IS MY THOUGHT LIKE? 
 
 This is a pleasant fireside game that, 
 without requiring any very, great depth of 
 thought, is made all the more interesting 
 by the ready wit and natural ability of the 
 players. Some particular thing is fixed 
 upon by one of the company as a subject 
 of thought. He then asks each one in 
 turn what his thought is like. They say 
 anything they choose ; a rainbow, a water- 
 fall, a monkey, an umbrella, or whatever 
 may occur to them. • The leader then in- 
 forms the company A\fhat hi^ thought was, 
 
 asking each one in turn to draw a resem- 
 blance between it and the object fixed 
 upon as a comparison. It not unfrequently 
 happens that the best reply is given by one 
 whose task appears to be the most difficult, 
 owing to the utter dissimilarity of the two 
 objects compared ; an ingenious player 
 being able to detect some point of resem- 
 blance, between two things so totally unlike 
 each other as to be almost ridiculous. 
 
 THE TELESCOPIC GIANT. 
 
 Place a mask on the end of a stick about 
 five feet long, with a cross piece to repre- 
 sent arms. Around the neck tie a cloak 
 long enough to reach the ground. About 
 two feet from the bottom the lower end 
 must be fastened to the performer's waist, 
 that when the head is lowered the cloak 
 may fall in folds. By raising or depress- 
 ing the pole the figure may become a 
 dwarf or a giant. 
 
 This can also be made by placing a small 
 boy on the shoulders of a man. 
 
 A giantess can also be made. 
 
 PLUM PUDDING/ 
 The company sit at a table with- a plate 
 for the " plum pudding." Each takes the 
 name of some article of food or somethino- 
 
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 used at meal times. One tells a story, and 
 at the word phim-ptidding spins the platter, 
 and names one of the company, who must 
 continue the story and keep the platter 
 spinning. Phim-pttdding must be brought 
 into each story, and the platter must not 
 be allowed to fall. 
 
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 STOOL OF REPENTANCE. 
 
 The players seated round the room, a 
 stool is placed in the center, which one of 
 the company volunteers to occupy while 
 certain charges are being made against him. 
 One person acting as Lord President then 
 goes round the room, inquiring of each 
 player what charge he or she has to make 
 against the culprit, who is humbly sitting 
 on the stool of repentance. All the accu- 
 sations are whispered into the president's 
 ear, who will do wisely, should the party be 
 a large one, to be supplied with paper and 
 pencil, and attach to each accusation the 
 name of the person who makes it. All 
 being in readiness, the president then 
 begins by saying, " Prisoner on the stool 
 of repentance, you are accused of (being 
 conceited, or noisy, or vain, etc.). Can 
 you tell me the name of the person who 
 makes this serious charge against you ? " 
 Should the prisoner guess rightly, the 
 accuser must pay the forfeit, and prepare 
 himself to take the place of culprit in the 
 next game ; but, on the other hand, should 
 the prisoner guess wTongly, he must pay 
 the forfeit himself, and keep his seat on 
 the stool of repentance. It sometimes 
 happens that when the prisoner has, at 
 an early stage of the proceedings, guessed 
 correctly, and by so doing has earned his 
 freedom, he still wishes to hear the rest of 
 the accusations. If such be the case, he is 
 entitled to have his wish gratified, being 
 willing, of course, to pay a forfeit for 
 every mistake ; and w-hen all have been 
 heard (if he has succeeded in guessing 
 
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 rightly more than once), he has the privi- 
 lege of choosing the next culprit to occupy 
 the seat that he has vacated. 
 
 PERSON AND OBJECT. 
 
 Two of the company leave the room 
 together, and after due consultation agree 
 to think of some particular person, either 
 historical or otherwise, and about whom 
 they shall be prepared to answer an)- ques- 
 tion which may be put to them by their 
 friends. Not merely, however, as in other 
 games, is some particular person thought 
 of, but also something belonging to him ; 
 for instance, part of his dress, his favorite 
 dog, his friend, or perhaps some peculiarity 
 by which he is so well known that it has 
 actually become part of himself; and on 
 returninof to the room, one of the two who 
 have been absent must represent the per- 
 son, and the other the object. In turn 
 they must then submit to be questioned 
 by the company, who will alternately 
 address themselves, first to the person, 
 then to the object. Supposing Mr. Glad- 
 stone to be the person fixed upon, his axe 
 might be chosen for the object, or Crom- 
 well and his wart, or Lord Beaconsfield 
 and his little curl. While the question- 
 ing is going on, the person must not vol- 
 unteer any information relative to the 
 object, neither must the object give any 
 light relative to the person ; each must 
 accurately but briefly speak for himself 
 alone until the company succeed In guess- 
 ing who and what have been the subject 
 of thouo^ht. 
 
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 THE CUSHION DANCE. 
 A hassock is placed end upwards In the 
 middle of the floor, round which the players 
 form a circle with hands joined, having first 
 divided themselves into two equal parts, so 
 that they can take sides in the game. 
 
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 The adversaries, facing each other, begin 
 business by dancing round the hassock a 
 few times ; then suddenly one side tries to 
 pull the other forward, so as to force one 
 of their number to touch the hassock, and 
 to upset It. 
 
 The struggle that necessarily ensues 
 is a source of great fun, causing as much 
 or even more merriment to spectators 
 of the scene than to the players them- 
 selves. At last, in spite of the utmost 
 dexterity, down goes the hassock or 
 cushion, whichever it may be ; some 
 one's foot is sure to touch It before very 
 long, when the unfortunate Individual is 
 dismissed from the circle, and compelled 
 to pay a forfeit. 
 
 The advantages that the gentlemen 
 have over the ladies in this game are 
 very great ; they can leap over the stool 
 and avoid it times without number, while 
 the ladles are continually impeded by 
 their dresses. It generally happens 
 that two gentlemen are left to keep up 
 the struggle, which in most cases is a 
 very prolonged one. 
 
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 Rest two canes on the shoulders of 
 two men. The one behind having a 
 pair of boots on his hands, rests them 
 on the shoulders of the one in front. 
 His head is thrown backward on a 
 small pillow, and there must be a pil- 
 low dressed like a man for the body. 
 
 With longer canes, a taller man can 
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 THE BABY ELEPHANT. 
 A very good imitation of a Baby Ele- 
 phant can easily be got up by two or three 
 of the company, who are willing to spend 
 a little time and trouble in making the 
 necessary preparations. In the first place 
 a large grey shawl or rug must be found, 
 as closely resembling the color of an ele- 
 phant as possible. On this a couple of 
 flaps of the same material must be sewn, 
 to represent the ears, and also two pieces 
 of marked paper for the eyes. No diffi- 
 culty will be found in finding tusks, which 
 may consist of cardboard or stiff white 
 paper, rolled up tighdy, while the trunk 
 may be made of a piece of grey flannel 
 also rolled up. The body of the dear litde 
 creature is then constructed by means of 
 two performers, who stand one behind the 
 other, each with his body bent down, so as 
 to make the backs of both one long sur- 
 face, the one in front holding the trunk. 
 
 while the one behind holds the tusks one 
 in each hand. The shawl is then thrown 
 over them both, when the result will be a 
 figure very much resembling a little ele- 
 phant. When all is complete, the services 
 of a third performer should be enlisted to 
 undertake the post of keeper to the ele- 
 phant. If the person chosen for this 
 capacity has great inventive faculties, the 
 description given by him may be made to 
 add greatly to the amusement of the 
 scene. 
 
 THE GIRAFFE. 
 A very good imitation of a Giraffe may 
 be contrived, on the same principles as 
 those adopted in constructing the Baby 
 Elephant. Provided with an animal's head 
 as nearly like that of a Giraffe as possible, 
 no more difficulty need be feared. First 
 of all, the head must be fastened to the 
 end of a long stick. One of two perfor- 
 
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 his companion, standing" close behind, must 
 place himself in a stooping position, so as 
 to make the outline of his own person like 
 that of the lower part of the Giraffe's 
 body. The long stick will, of course, form 
 the neck of the animal, and the first per- 
 former will form the front part of the bod)'. 
 A cloth is then pinned round the stick and 
 round the bodies of the two performers, 
 leaving the legs, of course, to represent 
 the legs of the Giraffe. A rope tail must 
 be stuck in by some means or other, and 
 if cleverly managed, it is astonishing what 
 an excellent imitation of the real animal 
 can thus be manufactured. 
 
 A MENAGERIE. 
 A whole menao;-erie can be made with 
 a little ingenuity. A Duck, by placing a 
 board on a boy's back and covering all Avith 
 a shawl. Newspapers cut into strips for 
 the tail, and the head made out of cloth or 
 paper. The Elephant by two men bend- 
 ing their bodies at right-angles, the one 
 behind placing his hands upon the hips of 
 the other and covering all with a grey shawl, 
 making tusks, and a trunk, and so on. 
 
 THE WILD BEAST SHOW. 
 
 As the leader of this game will require 
 the help of at least two of the party to 
 assist him in his exhibition, he should, if 
 possible, select those who have already 
 been initiated into the mysteries of the 
 game. Retiring with his two or three 
 friends into another apartment, he will con- 
 
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 trive some means of fixincr his menao-erie 
 behind a large curtain. In the absence of 
 the curtain a kind of temporary screen 
 might easily be fixed, just to give the whole 
 affair an appearance of importance. On a 
 small table a lookino^-s^lass should then be 
 placed, but must be hidden from view. The 
 leader must then take his post at the door 
 of his establishment, and in an emohatic 
 manner extol the beauty and value of the 
 animals he has on view, while his partisans, 
 crouched behind the curtain and out of 
 sight, must, in the meantime, imitate loudly 
 the cries of different wild animals, aiming 
 to make the hee-haw of the donkey more 
 conspicuous than any other sound. Spec- 
 tators are invited to enter. On consenting 
 to do so, each one is asked which animal 
 he would like to see first, and whatever he 
 says, he is shown his own image in the 
 mirror. The great aim is to prevail upon 
 the visitors to view the magnificent donkey 
 that is to be heard braying, when, of course, 
 they see nothing but their own face re- 
 flected in the looking glass. 
 
 This game, though not one of the most 
 refined, has had the charm, we may say, 
 hundreds of times of causing many a 
 hearty laugh. 
 
 EGYPTIAN MUMMIES. . 
 
 A few who have never seen the game 
 must be blindfolded. Then double up their 
 right hands and mark a face upon them 
 with burnt cork. Dress them in a long 
 white skirt as a baby and place the hands 
 upon the left arms. Then take off the 
 bandag-es. 
 
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 THROWING LIGHT. 
 This game is a wonderfully interesting 
 one, though, like all others, its success 
 depends very greatly upon the amount cf 
 energy that is thrown into it by the players. 
 A word is chosen to be the subject of con- 
 versation by two of the party, and must 
 be known to themselves only. It should 
 be a word to which several meanings are 
 attached, so that the remarks made in 
 reference to it may be ambiguous and puz- 
 zling to the rest of the company. The two 
 persons who know the word begin a con- 
 versation, referring to the word in all its 
 different meanings, the others being allowed 
 to add their remarks as soon as they have 
 guessed what the word is. 
 
 Supposing the word fixed upon to have 
 been Hare, which is also spelt in another 
 way, the conversation could be very easily 
 sustained in something: like the followine 
 style : 
 
 \st player. — " I saw one the other day when 
 I was out driving in the country." 
 
 2nd player. — " I had one sent for,a Christmas 
 box." 
 
 1st player. — " My own is dark brown." 
 2nd player. — " And mine is nearly black."' 
 1st player. — " Do you like it hot or cold." 
 2nd player. — •" Between the two, I think." 
 
 Here some one who has discovered the 
 word may remark, " Don't we read of some 
 one in the Bible who might have lived 
 longer if he had not possessed quite so 
 much of it? " Thus the chat runs on until 
 the players, one by one, as they guess the 
 word, are entitled to take part in the con- 
 versation. The penalty for making a mis- 
 take and joining in the conversation before 
 
 the rieht word has been discovered, is to 
 have a handkerchief thrown over the guilty 
 person's head, which must be kept on until 
 the word is really found out. The words 
 Lock, Ball (Bawl), Deer, Pen, Belle, Bean, 
 Seal , Pain (Pane), Boy, Handel, (Handle), 
 Whale (Wail), and similar words with two 
 or three meanings, are such as will be 
 required. 
 
 THE ARTISTS' MENAGERIE. 
 A pencil and a piece of paper of moder- 
 ately good size are given to the players, 
 each of whom is requested to draw on the 
 top of the sheet a head of some descrip- 
 tion, it may be a human head or that of 
 any animal, either bird, beast, or fish. As 
 soon as each sketch is finished the paper 
 must be folded back, and passed to the left- 
 hand neighbor, no one on any account 
 lookincf at the drawing^ under the fold. The 
 body of something must next be drawn. 
 As before, it may be either a human body 
 or that of any animal, and the papers must 
 then be again folded and passed to the 
 left. Lastly, a pair of legs must be added, 
 or it may be four legs, the number will 
 depend upon the animal depicted. The 
 produe»;ions all being complete, they are 
 opened and passed round to the company, 
 who will be edified by seeing before them 
 some very ridiculous specimens of art. 
 
 THE AUCTION. 
 A variety of ridiculous articles are done 
 up in paper parcels, which the auctioneer 
 sells to the highest bidder ; the contents, 
 of course, being unknown. 
 
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 THE JOLLY MILLER. 
 The Jolly Miller is a game that may be 
 played either in the open air or in the 
 drawing-room, therefore it may be allowed 
 to take its place among the list of round 
 games. Not being generally considered, 
 however, one of the most refined of recrea- 
 tions, a good large empty room, or a ser- 
 vants' hall, will be quite as suitable for its 
 performance as the drawing-room. Each 
 gentleman chooses a lady for a partner, 
 excepting one who may be kind enough to 
 volunteer to be the miller. This solitary 
 one takes his stand in the middle of the 
 room, while his companions, in couples, 
 arm in arm, walk round him singing the 
 following lines : — 
 
 " There was a jolly miller who lived by 
 
 himself. 
 As the wheel went round he made his 
 
 wealth ; 
 
 One hand in the copper and the other 
 
 in the bag. 
 As the wheel went round he made his 
 
 grab." 
 
 At the word "grab " every one must change 
 partners, and while the transition is going 
 on the miller has the opportunity given 
 him of securing for himself one of the 
 ladies. Should he succeed in doing so, the 
 one necessarily left without a partner must 
 take the place of the Jolly Miller, when he, 
 like his predecessor, must occupy his lonely 
 position until he is fortunate enough to 
 steal a young lady from one of his friends. 
 
 THROWING CARDS INTO A HAT. 
 A few persons sit in a circle with a hat 
 in the center of the floor. The object is 
 to see who can throw the most cards into 
 the hat. 
 
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 A certain number of the company take 
 the part of statues. The artist then dis- 
 poses of his works of art, either by auction 
 or private sale. 
 
 METAMORPHOSES. 
 Put on a loose coat hind side before, a 
 wig over the face, and a false face on the 
 back of the head. If this is done by eight 
 persons a cotillion may be danced. 
 
 put on a high collar. Bury the chin in 
 the collar, and slowly draw the neck out 
 to its utmost length. Repeat this rapidly. 
 
 A boy or short man with a broom 
 covered with cloaks and a hat, enters the 
 room with his back to the company as if 
 examining the pictures. The body can be 
 lengthened or shortened. 
 
 Make an entire set of features on the 
 forehead with India ink or lamp black. 
 Cover the rest of the face with a white 
 
 Cover a long narrow table or two chairs 
 with a cloth, under which lies a man hold- 
 ing in each hand a stick crosswise. Dress 
 this with coat and hat, and make the two 
 fight over the table. 
 
 Paint on each side the neck two black 
 stripes about half an inch wide, about an 
 inch from the middle of the throat, and 
 
 choker and cravat. By moving the eye- 
 brows the moustaches will appear to move. 
 
 Or :— 
 
 Take some one with very light eyebrows 
 and no moustache. Paint eyes and eye- 
 brows on the forehead, and connect them 
 with the bridge of the nose. Paint heavy 
 black moustaches. 
 
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 PORTRAITS. 
 A frame about the size of an ordinary 
 portrait frame, is placed upon a table, the 
 space around draped with shawls. The 
 portraits may be arranged as in tableaux, 
 or the figures may glide in slowly. 
 
 EYES. 
 Stretch a sheet, or newspaper, across one 
 end of the room with various holes cut in it. 
 Some of the company stand behind and 
 place their eyes in the opening, to see if 
 they can be recognized. The hands or any 
 part of the face can be applied. 
 
 Curious effects may be obtained by ob- 
 serving the followinof directions : — 
 
 Paint four grotesque figures on a curtain 
 allowing a space to exactly admit a person's 
 face. Sinmncr adds to the effect. 
 
 TRICKS. 
 Tavo persons kneel on one knee, one 
 holding a lighted candle and the other one 
 unlighted. Without losing their balance, 
 they must try to light the candle. 
 
 One, blindfolded, stands before a table, 
 upon which is a lighted candle. He must 
 take three steps backward, turn around 
 three times, and walking forward try to 
 blow out the candle. 
 
 Place a cork on top of a bottle or a table. 
 Stand in front of it, fix your eyes on 
 the cork, walk slowly backwards ten or 
 twelve feet, extend your right hand, close 
 one eye, and walk forward, till you think 
 
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 you are near enough to knock the cork off 
 with one blow of your finger. 
 
 Two persons, blindfolded, must shake 
 hands starting from opposite sides of the 
 room. 
 
 Pin a piece of paper to the wall. One, 
 blindfolded, starts some feet from it and 
 tries to touch it. 
 
 THE RESTING WAND. 
 
 It is necessary in playing the Resting 
 Wand that at least two people should be 
 acquainted with the mystery attached to it, 
 and that they should make an arrangement 
 v/ith each other beforehand to understand 
 each other's movements. One of these 
 two persons is blindfolded, and placed with 
 his back to the company, while his com- 
 panion, with a staff in his hand, stands 
 facino^ them. The latter of the two then 
 begins an animated conversation with his 
 friends, trying when talking to them to 
 make frequent mention of their names. 
 Stopping occasionally, he touches some 
 one with the wand, saying at the same 
 time to his friend, who is blindfolded, " On 
 whom does the wand rest? " Strangers to 
 the game will not all at once perceive that 
 the wand is always made to rest on the 
 person who was the last but one to speak, 
 and that it is on account of this arrange- 
 ment that the blinded person is able to 
 mystify his friends by answering correctly 
 the question, " On whom does the wand 
 rest ? " 
 
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 One of the party is chosen to be the 
 Bird-catcher. The rest fix upon some par- 
 ticular bird whose voice they can imitate 
 when called upon, the owl being the only 
 bird forbidden to be chosen. Then sitting 
 in order round the room with their hands 
 on their knees, they listen to the story 
 their master has to tell them. The Bird- 
 catcher begins by relating some incident 
 in which the feathered tribe take a very 
 prominent position, but particularly those 
 birds represented by the company. Each 
 one, as the name of the bird he has chosen 
 is mentioned, utters the cry peculiar to it, 
 never for a moment moving his hands from 
 his knees. Should the owl be referred to, 
 however, every one is expected to place 
 his hands behind him, and to keep them 
 there until the name of another bird has 
 been mentioned, when he must, as before, 
 place them on his knees. During the 
 movinof of the hands, if the Bird-catcher 
 can succeed in securing a hand, the owner 
 of it must pay a forfeit, and also change 
 places with the Bird-catcher. 
 
 We must not forsfet to observe that when 
 the leader or Bird-catcher, as he is called, 
 refers in his narrative to "all the birds in 
 the air," all the players are to utter at the 
 same time the cries of the different birds 
 they represent. 
 
 THE DUTCH CONCERT. 
 
 Each selects an instrument and imitates 
 its sound, one at the piano playing a popu- 
 lar tune. 
 
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 WHO WAS HE? 
 This game is not unlike the game of 
 " Person and Object," though by many 
 people it is considered superior. The first 
 player begins by mentioning four distin- 
 guishing traits, of either character or person, 
 belonofine to some remarkable individual 
 of whom at that present moment he is 
 thinking. Supplied with these four facts 
 the company are expected to guess the 
 name of the person at once, instead of 
 havinof a number of o^uesses, as in similar 
 games of the kind ; indeed, for every 
 wrong guess a forfeit can be claimed. 
 
 THIS AND THAT. 
 
 The trick in this game that must be 
 understood by the two of the company 
 who are to take the leading part in it, is 
 nothing more than that the word ^/la^ 
 is to precede the article that has been 
 chosen for ofuessins:. For instance, one of 
 the two players acquainted with the game 
 eoes out of the room while an article is 
 chosen by one of the company as f/ie object 
 to be euessed. The absent one is then 
 recalled, when the second player acquainted 
 with the eame remarks that something in 
 this room has been touched, and requests 
 him to name the article. 
 
 " Do you think it was this music book ? " — 
 
 " No." 
 " Was it the arm-chair ?" — " No." 
 " Was it the writing desk .' " — " No." 
 " Was it this chair .' " — " No." 
 " Was it that bracket 1 " — " Yes." 
 
 The performance may be repeated until 
 the secret has been discovered. 
 
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 THE FEEDERS. 
 
 Two persons, blindfolded, must try to 
 feed each other with flour, or rice ; 
 
 Or: — 
 
 One is blindfolded and the others feed 
 him with water until he guesses who is 
 feeding him. 
 
 CLAIRVOYANCE. 
 
 One is seated, blindfolded. His accom- 
 plice says " Silence." and then, " Stop, 
 stop, stop, stand, stop, where do I stop ? " 
 pointing to various members of the com- 
 pany. He stops at the person who spoke 
 last. 
 
 The accomplice leaves the room and one 
 object is decided upon, which he is to guess. 
 The catch is in the leader asking questions, 
 altering the catch-word each time. In the 
 first instance placing a before the object, 
 then ^/le, next fkzs, and then ^/m^. 
 
 Or, the object is known by the leader 
 pointing to something black just before 
 the object itself, or a thing with four legs, 
 or naming it after one beginning with a 
 vowel. Almost any arrangement may be 
 made between the two. 
 
 One goes out, a small article is chosen, 
 and the room darkened. The accomplice 
 within places his watch near the article 
 chosen. There must be silence on the part 
 of the company. 
 
 I HAVE A CHICKEN. 
 One sentence at a time is repeated by 
 each, every time the question going back 
 to the leader. 
 
 " I have a chicken." 
 
 " Can she walk ?" 
 
 " Yes, she can walk." 
 
 " Can she talk >" 
 
 " Yes, she can talk." 
 
 " How does she talk ?" 
 Each must crow. 
 
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 FLOUR AND THE RING. 
 
 Make a mould with a cup of flour and 
 place a ring on top. Each must cut off a 
 slice, and the one who causes the ring to 
 fall must take the ring out with his mouth. 
 
 PANTOMIME. 
 
 Songs and Ballads are sung, while some 
 of the company act them out in panto- 
 mime. 
 
 to tell you that she has a bird (or whatever 
 you like). The person addressed then says 
 the same words to her left-hand neighbor, 
 adding something else about the bird — ■ 
 namely, it has a long tail, a plumed head, 
 etc. It goes on round the circle, every 
 one adding something to the description, 
 until the subject is exhausted. Any one 
 who makes a mistake has to wear a horn 
 of twisted paper on her head, and is ad- 
 dressed as " one-horned lady, always one- 
 
 GENTEEL LADY. 
 
 A very amusing game for the evenings 
 is that of Genteel Lady. The party having 
 been arranged in a circle, one of them 
 turns to her left-hand neighbor and says, 
 " Good morning, genteel lady, always gen- 
 teel ; I, a genteel lady, always genteel, 
 come from that genteel lady — pointing to 
 her right-hand neighbor — always genteel, 
 
 horned," or two-horned lady, according to 
 the number of mistakes she makes. 
 
 BURIED CITIES. 
 Form sentences with the name of a 
 city buried, so that it is not easily recog- 
 nized. It may be in two or more words, 
 but the letters must occur in regular order. 
 
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 ADVERBS. 
 An adverb is chosen. The one who 
 goes out must guess the adverb by the 
 manner in which the questions are an- 
 swered. 
 
 THE CRITICS. 
 
 This is an amusing game if played by a 
 good-natured party. One is selected to 
 gather up the criticisms or opinions of 
 the players in regard to one of their num- 
 ber. These opinions are whispered to the 
 leader who keeps them carefully in mind 
 until all have expressed themselves. Then 
 he says to the victim : — 
 
 " Som.ebody says you are very vain." 
 
 "O that is Mary White." 
 
 " Wrong. Somebody says you are re- 
 markably good-natured." 
 
 " Mr. Selden must have said that." 
 
 " Wrong. Somebody says that nobody 
 knows what your nose knows." 
 
 " Not original at all events. I think I've 
 heard Clarence repeat that." 
 
 Clarence proves to be the guilty party, 
 and is obliged to take the victim's place, 
 and listen to similar criticisms. Care must 
 be taken to avoid being unpleasantly per- 
 sonal, as these games are intended to cement 
 friendships and not to destroy them, or to 
 cause the least ill feeling. 
 
 JUDGE AND JURY. 
 
 The first thing to be done in this game 
 
 is to select a judge and three jurymen. A 
 
 piece of paper is then given to each of the 
 
 remaining company, who, after due con- 
 
 sideration, must write down the name of 
 some one in history, the incidents of whose 
 life they recollect sufficiently to be able to 
 narrate. All having made their selection, 
 the papers are presented to the judge, who 
 calls upon one after another to submit to 
 an examination. Supposing the first player 
 to have chosen Guy Fawkes, he would be 
 asked in Avhat year he was born, in whose 
 reign, to what country he belonged, what 
 he did to make himself remarkable, what 
 great men were his contemporaries, and 
 anything else that might occur to the judge. 
 No one, of course, with a superficial knowl- 
 edge of history should accept the position 
 of judge, nor yet that of juryman. If 
 agreeable to the company, living characters 
 may be personified ; still historical ones are 
 generally the most interesting, and it is 
 astonishing how much instruction as well 
 as real amusement may be drawn from the 
 
 game. 
 
 POSITIVE AND COMPARATIVE. 
 
 Two words are chosen with different 
 meanings but which sound relatively to 
 each other as positive and comparative— as 
 sew — sower. One must guess these words 
 by definitions given by the others. 
 
 SENTIMENT. 
 Each whispers to his neighbor on one 
 side the name of a person, and on. the other 
 a sentiment. For example, " Miss Mary 
 Moore." " Kind hearts are more than 
 coronets." These are repeated together 
 when the signal is given. ■ - - • - 
 
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 PRESENT AND ADVICE. 
 
 All the players except two are seated in 
 a row. One of these whispers in the ear 
 of each child, " I present you with this," 
 and then mentions some article, bird, beast, 
 fish, or inanimate object. 
 
 The second, in like manner, adds, " I 
 advise you what to do with it." 
 
 After the two have gone round the row, 
 each player is called upon in turn to state 
 the present and the advice received. One 
 says, " I was presented with a rooster, and 
 advised to put it on top of a steeple." 
 Another says, " I was presented with a 
 monument, and advised to put it in my 
 pocket," and so on until all have given in 
 their reports, and _ enjoyed a hearty laugh 
 at the queer kind of advice. 
 
 THE MUSICAL SNAIL. 
 A common garden snail may be made 
 to perform musical sounds by making it 
 crawl along a pane of glass placed on rests 
 like a sounding-board ; the sounds emitted 
 will be sometinor like those of a harmonium. 
 
 THE FEATHER. 
 The players sit in a circle, each taking 
 hold of the edge of a sheet with both 
 hands and holding it up to the chin. A 
 feather is placed on the sheet, and the 
 players are to keep it in motion by blowing 
 it, while one of the company is outside the 
 circle, trying to catch it by reaching out 
 his hands. The quickness with which the 
 position and direction of the feather can 
 be changed by blowing sharply, will make 
 the efforts of the catcher futile for some 
 
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 time. When he catches the feather, the 
 person in front of whom it is caught must 
 exchange places with him. 
 
 ALPHABET GAMES. 
 
 Provided with a good boxful of letters', 
 either on wood or cardboard, a clean table, 
 a bright fire, and three or four pleasant 
 companions, a very pleasant hour may be 
 spent. It is almost needless to give, direc- 
 tions-how to -proceed with the letters, for 
 they can be used in a variety of ways, ac- 
 cording to inclination. Sometimes a word 
 is formed by one person, the. letters of 
 which he passes on to his neighbor, asking 
 him to find out what the word is. A still 
 more interesting method is for the whole 
 party to fix upon one long word, and all 
 try in a certain time how many different 
 words can be made of it. Or another wa}', 
 even better still, is to shuffle the letters 
 well together, and then to give to each 
 person a certain number. All must then 
 make a sentence out of the letters, whether 
 with or without sense, as best they can. 
 The transposition of words, too, is very 
 amusing, and can be done either with the 
 loose letters or' with pencil and paper. 
 
 The names of poets, authors, or great 
 men famous in history may be given, the 
 letters of which may be so completely 
 altered as to form words or sentences 
 totally different from the original. 
 
 For instance : — 
 
 We lads get on. 
 Rich able man. 
 Side Rail. 
 Pale Noon. 
 
 W. E. Gladstone. 
 Chamberlain. 
 Disraeli. 
 Napoleon. 
 
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 Hang up a white sheet very smoothly, 
 and if net the shadows will be much 
 sharper. Behind it place any amusing 
 scene. Set a light behind the screen about 
 three or four feet from the furniture, and 
 have the performers step sideways over 
 the light when they enter. 
 
 THE BUMBLE BEE IN THE GAR- 
 DEN. 
 Each gentleman takes the name of an 
 insect, and each lady that of a flower. One 
 standing in the center begins to tell a 
 story, and when he brings in the name 
 chosen by any one, that person must stand 
 and go on with the story. The w^ords 
 
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 BOSTON. 
 
 The company are seated and numbered. 
 One standing in the center calls out two 
 numbers who must change places, and the 
 •caller must try to obtain one of the seats. 
 At the call of " Boston " all changre. 
 
 Similar to this is " Penny Post," when 
 the company take the name of cities and 
 the postman in the center says, "The post 
 is going between and ." 
 
 If there is a large circle four numbers 
 jfiiay be called at one time. 
 
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 flower, I, and bush must not be used, or a 
 forfeit is demanded. When the word sun 
 is mentioned all must get up and turn 
 around, and at watering pot all must change 
 seats, the one standing at the time trying 
 to secure one. 
 
 COMES, IT COMES. 
 One says, " Comes, it comes." The 
 others, " What do you come by ? " "I 
 come by " — naming the first letter of some 
 object in the room.