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My Book of Indoor Games by Clarence Squareman
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to cause the grease to fall.

Here are some other similar comic tableaux which you can easily place
before an audience:

"Meet of the Hounds."--A pile of dog biscuits.

"View of the Black Sea."--A large capital C blackened with ink.

"The Charge of the Light Brigade."--Half a dozen boxes of matches
labeled: "10 cents the lot."

These are only a few of the many comic living pictures you can
perform; but, no doubt, you will be able to think of others for
yourselves.

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ACTING PROVERBS

[Illustration]

The best way to play this game is for the players to divide themselves
into two groups, namely, actors and audience. Each one of the actors
should then fix upon a proverb, which he will act, in turn, before
the audience. As, for instance, supposing one of the players to have
chosen the proverb, "A bad workman quarrels with his tools," he should
go into the room where the audience is seated, carrying with him a bag
in which there is a saw, a hammer, or any other implement or tool
used by a workman; he should then look round and find a chair, or some
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