Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-26
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
THE CHiLDREN's HOUR.
Fill 1t on Thanksgiving with Joys ThS
win Never lie Forgotten.

WIN Never lie Forgotten.
Let Thanksgiving bea night Of rollick-
ing fun for the children, little and big.
In after years, when they are away from
home, its influences will linger around
them still Your son or your daughter
may be kept in the straight and mar
row way" by the remembrance of just
one happy home night,
A simple game that even the baby can
almost take part in is called Fish,
Flesh or Fowl" The leader must stand
and say to one, Fish. flesh or fowl?
Then, if before he has counted five, that
one does not give the name of some fowl,
he must pay forfeit. There is lots OF
fun in this game, for, in the effort tc
think of some fowl quickly, one is likely
to get confused and cry out "eels," OF
elephants" forgetting that these are
unlikely fowls. The leader must talk
rapidly for the older folk, but more
slowly for the little ones. 1t will incite
the latter to look up all the available
names of fowl when they know this game
is to be played
II there is n large party Of boys and
girls, if cousins or neighbors have been
asked in, "The jolly Mariners" is an en-
joyable game. Have the parlor doors
opened so as to pass through one door
and out at the other. The boys all
march around, the one who takes the
lead with handkerchief over his shoul-
der, and all singing:
We are a set Of jolly, jolly lads,
Who have Just arrived on shore:
We spend our days in many merry ways,
As we have done before.
And we will turn around and round.
And we will turn around,
And he who finds "A very pretty girl,
Must kiss her kneeling down.
Having chosen his every pretty GIRL"
and saluted her, he spreads his handker-
chief for her to kneel upon, while the
girls sing:
It's n bargain, a bargain for you, young man,
It's n bargain, IA bargain for you;
You've given your word, now keep 1t true,
And love her all you can.
Then another lad takes the lead, and
the song is repeated until all the girls
have been chosen.
There isn't much to be said for the
meter or rhyme Of these verses, but the
boys and girls will not be too critical
about that, and those who object to boys
and girls of tender years kissing each
other may teach the former to make a
courtly bow instead.
my fathers got home from India" is
game that never fails to bring down
the house. Seat the children on three
sides of the room, and let the leader sit
so that he can be seen by all. He must
then say, MY fathers got home from
India" "What did he bring you?" one
must be instructed to ask. You reply,
"A FAM" and then begin to fan yourself
with your hand, which all must initiate
Then you repeat the remark about the
return of your father and another asks,
What did he bring your" 1.-TWO fans"
tanning with both hands, which all must
initiate.
To the next question the answer is,
1.-TWO fans, boot and a shoe" which
necessitates that both hands go through
the motion of tanning, while the feet
tap the floor. To the next you reply,
1.-TWO fans, a boot, a shoe and hat
and then the head must be nodded. The
first one who misses any motion must
pay forfeit, and it is needless to say
that the forfeits are many. 1t is really
good exercise, and after the little ones
have been thoroughly instructed in
games of this kind. they will relieve you
of their care through many busy hour
by playing them among themselves.
An impressive ceremony that can
scarcely be called game, is to ask each
one what he has had to be thankful for
through the past year, beginning with
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