Entertainments for Home, Church and School by Frederica Seeger
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being required to give an appropriate answer. He then inquires in
similar manner, "When do you like it," and if the answer to that question still gives him no clue, proceeds to ask, "Where do you like it?" When he at last discovers the word, the person whose answer has furnished him with the most information, must in turn leave the room and become the questioner. We will suppose the word chosen to be "rain," which can also be taken as "reign" or "rein." The question, "How do you like it?" receives the answers, "tight," "heavy," "short," "warm," etc. The question, "When do you like it?", "in summer," "when I am driving," "in the nineteenth century," etc. "Where do you like it?", "in the United States," "on a horse," "in the sky," etc. MY GRANDFATHER'S TRUNK--ANY NUMBER OF PLAYERS A great game for young folks of a winter evening. The company being seated in a circle, somebody begins by saying, for instance: No. 1. "I pack my grandfather's trunk with a pair of spectacles." No. 2. "I pack my grandfather's trunk with a pair of spectacles and a silk hat." No. 3. "I pack my grandfather's trunk with a pair of spectacles, a silk hat and a dime novel." And so on, each person repeating all the articles already mentioned, besides adding a new one. |
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