Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-12-26

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person who last heard the story tc
to repeat it exactly as the first one
gave it. The little fuss that is made
in entering and leaving the room
makes the difficulty of remembrance
all the greater.
Every one knows the excellent and
lively game of Musical Chairs. -
There is variety of it, which is not
SO well-known, called "The Hunts
man" Thir can te played by any
number above four; the more the
merrier. One of the players is the
huntsman, and others are named
after the different parts of his dress
or appurtenances. Thus there is the
gun, the hat, the coat, the boots, the
shot, the powder-fask, the powder,
the dog, the bag, the game, etc. q,
etc. Chairs, as many as there are
players, excluding the huntsman,
are placed in two rows, back to back
and the players set themselves on
these. When everything is pre-
pared the huntsman walks around
the sitters, and calls his followers
10y their chosen names. AS each
one is called he gets up and follows
the huntsman. The huntsman may
walk around slowly, or run, just as
he likes. At any stage of the pro-
ceedings he is allowed to call out
Bangr and Immediately take pos
session of one of the chairs, leaving
his followers to seat themselves as
best they can. Of course one is left
out, as there is q chair less than the
number of players. and that one
must pay forfeit. This game is
convenient where there is not pi.
ano in the room. When there is
piano, Musical Chairs" played in
the usual way-that is, with the
players marching around the chairs
to music and scrambling for chairs
when the music suddenly stops-is
quite as interesting.
Among the twilight games, which
may by played in the interval be-
tween daylight and gaslieht, per-
haps the best are How, When and
Where ?" "What is my Thought
Like ?" or "what is it like and, why
is it like it?" "Think of word to
thyme with so-and-so;" ct ap-
prenticed my son. and "Boz," or
The Game of Seven" These
games are too we'll known to need
description. AS variety, "The
Spanish Merchant" may be played.
The secret of this game should be
known only to one or two, and the
rest should try to guess it. The
players take in turn to address their
next neishbor. elm II Spanish
Merchant" says one. "What do
you sell?" is the retolt. The secret
of the game consists in the merchant
being careful to name as his article
of merchandise some object that he
at the same time lightly and unob-
trusiyely touches. If he omits to do
this the leader, says, All you are
no Spanish Merchant" and passes
on to the next. All sort of ridicu-
lous mistakes are made in trying to
discover the mystery. "My old
grandmother dosn't like Tea?" is
another game of the same character.
In reply to this the question comes,
" What does she like ?" and the
secret lies in never allowing the let
ter 7 to enter the word which is
supposed to embody the predelec-
ton of the venerable old lady.
Among the tricks which are played
upon the good-natured members of
a Christmas party, Brother I'm
Bobbed," is one which excites plenty
of laughter. When this is played,
those who who do not know the
game are sent out of the room.
Three chairs are then placed in the
middle of the apartment and each of
the two end ones are taken posses
sion of by lady or gentleman. |
When they are comfortably seated
a large tablecloth is thrown over the
heads of the couple. The players
are called in, one at a time, and in
vited to seat themselves on the va
cant chair in the middle, and the
cloth is drawn over their heads also.
They are then informed that they
will be "bobbed" occasionally and
will be released as soon as they can
tell who did the deed. The three
receive in turn knock on the head,
and each one is expected to acknowl-
edge the compliment by saying,
Brother I'm Bobbed." "Who
bobbed you?" Of course the
initiated brothers inAict the blows,
they profess to suffer as
much as their fellows, and the
novice is inclined to charge every
member of the company with the
offense before it occurs to him to ac-
cuse his companions.
A very peculiar sensation may be
by those who endeavor
to blow out a candle without seeing
where it is. The candle is lighted
and placed upon a table. Tho play
er is then blindfolded, and is told to
walk three steps to the right, to the