The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

Pleasant games for thanksgiving, IN
which both old and young people are
interested, are played as follows:
Transpositions-Write 4 list of words
for each person present by using only
once the letters found in the names
of certain flowers, states, authors, ETC.,
or any words you may select. The let
tiers of these words %transposed give the
word sought.
For instance, take Rh~ododendron.
Using the letters we have the words
odd, or, end, horn. From Bachelors
Button, club, lose, tab, torn. Massa-
chusetts gives seat, suet, smash; or
hats, seat, muses.. Newfoundland,
weld, nun, do, fan. North Carolina, no.,
chair, la, torn.
From Constance Fenimore Woolson,
we have Moore, stain, scowl, fence,
noon. 1t is much easier to ascertain
the word sought if designated as a flow
er, author, ETC., but it sharpens ones
wits wonderfully to find them without
any clue.
In the list OF ten or a dozen words,
which is about all a person will care
to have at once, it is nice to include
his or her name.-Claribel.
MISUNDERSTANDING the company in
a line or circle around the room. Let
the first one announce a line of poetry.
The second must follow with a line
that rhymes with the first and agrees
with it in meter or measure. The third
must follow with another, and so on
around. If there are many in the COM
pany the last word of the first line
should be one that has plenty OF rhym-
ing words. If the company is small,
more difficult rhymes may be selected.
In a recent game the following vas the
result. The first n repeated a line
from one of Bryant's poems, and the
others followed as indicated:
1. "Heaped in the hollows of the
grove"
2. Lie all the ashes from our stove.
8. Well scatter them all round the
cove.
4. AnG cover up the treasure-trove.
5. Then you and : together, love,
6. Will all around this country rove.
A good deal of amusement is afforded
by the odd and homogeneous lines that
are sometimes given. The line must be
supplied in a given time, say n min
ute, or a forfeit must be paid.-G. c. H.
The Messenger.-The party are seat
ed in line, or round the side Of the room,
and some one previously appointed en-
ters with the message, my master
sends me to you, madam" or, sir as
the case may be, directed to any indi-
vidual he may select at his option.
what for?" is the natural inquiry.
"To do as l do;'' and with this the mes
senger commences to perform some
antic which the lady or gentleman must
imitate-say he wags his head side to
side, or taps with one foot necessarily
on the floor. The person whose duty
it is to obey, commands his neighbor to
the right or to the left to do as | do"
also; and so on until the whole com
pany is in motion, when the messenger
leaves the ROOM, re-entering it with
fresh injunctions. While the messen-
ger is in the room he must see his mas
ter's will obeyed, and no n must stop
from the movement without suffering
a forfeit. The messenger should be
some one ingenious in making the an
tics ludicrous, and yet keep within
moderate bounds, and the game will not
fail to produce shouts of laughter.
Another game, of much the same
character, is known by the title, Thus
says the Grand Seignor." The chief diff
ference is that the first player is sta
toned in the center of the and
prefaces his movements, which the
others must all follow, by the above
words. If he varies his command by
framing it, $50 says the Grand Seig-
nor" the party must remain still and
decline to follow his example. Any n
who moves when he begins with 80"
or does not follow him when he COM
mences with Thus" has to pay a for
felt.
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