Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-11-08
The Game of Progressive Spelling
Chritian Intelligence.

met WIN IL at very PHEASANT Hllle
party up in Canada, at the Carding-
toms, where / was visiting. You
may learn it, as l did, by watching
sharply while game is being play
ed.
Young DIR. Cardington, tall youth
with spectacles, took his stand before
the party, about dozen in all who
were arraigned in a long row. This
was the order in which they stood.
The Minister.
Miss Willoughby.
Willy Cardington.
The Schoolmistress.
The Professor.
Miss Cardington.
Master John Fallows.
Miss Simpson.
The Organist.
Miss Lucy.
Miss Wilson.
The minister began by saying 49,"
thinking possibly, of the word
"soap," Miss Willoughby at once
said ST." having in mind the word
"stay." Next young Willy Carding-
ton snapped out "R," adding aloud
with a chuckle, the word he was
thinking strap"
"Thank you," said the schollmis-
tress, "though it is against the lule of
the game to think out loud" And
so she added the letter ga" The
professor did not dare add "P,"
because that would have finished the
word and have sent him to the foot
of the class. So he said 81" think
ing luckily of strain"
But Miss Cardington was thus
placed in trouble. "S.t-r-a.i," she
murmured, perplexed, and fell to
thinking. ThereupOn the doctor in
front of the row, began to count DELHI
erately. He counted ten, and Miss
Cardington had to go foot, being
unable to add a letter without finish
ing the word.
Master John Fallows then made all
sorts of faces, while the doctor count
ed out his ten, and at last cried in
desperation 81"
Miss Simpson was astonished
"S.t-r-a.i.lw she cried in amazement
"JOhn,I challenge your wordn "Ye'
sir" said the doctor, 81 don't believe
you have any word" And Johr
was obliged to confess, with much
giggling, that he had none, and t.
take his place at the foot of the class
"If John had really had word
Miss Simpson the challenger, woulC
have had to go to the foot" explain
ed the doctor to me.
But Miss Simpson herself failed t
add a letter in the allotted time, anC
followed John to the foot. The or
ganist, however, promptly said "G,
having improved this little interva
In thinking up the word straight,
CHI" said Miss Lucy, whose brigh
wits saw the word at once, and sh
clasped her hands as she turned t,
Miss Wilson, who was compelled, o
course to put final "T" and go t,
the foot, because she had finished tn
word.
BY this time l had seen enough t,
warrant me in joining, and the doc
tor, too, was added to the row, still
assuming the duty Of counting, whel
necessary. 1 took my place next t
Miss Wilson, and the Doctor next t
me, at the foot.
1t was my turn of course, to intro
duce a new word, so ] started wit
81" "E," quickly added the doctor
crying at the same time to the miEis
ter at the head of the row. "You ar
caught! Come down here!" CT
said the minister innocently an,
was sent to the foot, having com
pleted the word in spite of his pro
testations that he was thinking G
"jetsam."
"Y," began Miss Willoughby
49," said Will Cardington. The
the schOOlmistress, unable to thinl
of anything but "U," went silent,
to the foot, after the doctor had count
ed ten. The luckless professor
thinking of "young," added the "U,'
and went down amidst much merri
ment. Gle should have added 81,
for 'yolk, said the organist quiet
ly.
Here there was great amusement
at the discovery of the professor an,
the school mistress together at te
foot, and by tacit agreement the doc
tor and / entered into a conspiracy t
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