Entertainments for Home, Church and School

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rge water-color card, or a sheet of water-color paper. Large cards with numbers down the sides are given to each player, with a pencil. The card of flags is then hung where all can see it,

ayer who has the greatest

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n make of the same letters. (Thus from the word above suggested may be made "not, with, stand, standing, gin, ton, to, wig, wit, his, twit, tan, has, had, an, nod, tow, this, sat, that, sit, sin, tin, wink, what, who, wish, win

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hrase or sentence, the palm of merit being awarded to the player who, at the same time, produces the m

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ows off his animals, and their tricks, singly, and in groups. The lion roars, as well as performs; the dog barks, and performs the tricks he is told to show of

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re numbered f

f India has lost his pearl. Did you find it, number seven?

sir,

eplies, "Yes

says: "No

then, sir,

: "Numbe

up, and says: "

Yes, sir;

"Not I, no

"Who the

"Number

r 2 jumps

e. If he can repeat again "The Prince of India has lost his pea

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numbers, whereupon the players bearing those numbers exchange places, the blindfolded player trying meanwhile either to catch one of the players or

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oined at the ends. This ring is passed rapidly from one player to another-always on the cord and concealed by the hand-while somebody

may be slipped upon the cord, and two

is to secretly attach a string to the whistle and fasten this to the back of the player in the center by means of a bent pin at the other end of the string. Then while feigning to pass the whi

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t be a lamp placed upon a table in the center of the room. Between this lamp and the person on the stool, the players pass in succession, their shadows being thrown upon the s

e by means of any available disguise that does not concea

G EYES

y go behind the sheet and stand with their eyes at the holes, while the others must

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players are blindfolded in turn-placed facing the donkey a few steps back in the room-then turned around rapidly two or three times, and told to advance with the tail held at arm's length, and with a pin previously inserted in the end, attach it to the figure of the donkey wherever they first touch it. When the whole curtain is adorned with tails-(not to mention all the furn

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players. Whoever receives it must instantly throw it to some one else, and so on, while the person in the center endeavors to catch the handkerchief in its passage from one player t

not be knotted or twis