The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-11-04
m ENGLISH PARTY,
Plenty Of Fun, but Of y Brand SinA%-
kins Didn't Relish. y

odd you ever 90 to an English
party?" asked Simpkins, ooh, they
are very hilarious, ! assure You, and
to produce hilnrity in an English
man requires a considerable amount
of horseplay-and a victim. Itst
all very funny if you don't happen
to be the victim,
"My sister married an English
man, and they had a sort of house.
winning the other night to which T.
ii my ignorance, went; They had
games, of course. An English party
consists of games, They began with
a gentle diversion called Brother,
I'm bobbed.' This consists of blind
folding the victim and attacking
him over the head with newspapers
rolled into hard clubs. When he is
struck he calls out, Brother, Tn
bobbed,' whereupon the rest of tho
company demand, Who bobbcd
you? Not being able to say. he is
fallen upon again with the newspa.
per clubs, and the company contin-
ues to attack him until he can ide~-
tify his assailant.
"Dazed and sore from this *.
~perience, he ia next invited t sit
on the throne with the kin and
queen He is led into a roou there
there is a seat covered with d shawl.
The king and queen sit at the ends
of the seat with room in the middle
for a third person. The victim is.
invited to occupy the third seat. Ho
sits down somewhat cautiously,
~whereupon the king and queen i'm
mediately rise, letting him down to
the floor, for the shawl merely COW
ers the space between two chairs.
He rises, trying to join in the gen.
eral hilarity, but hoping his spine
isn't injured for life.
"Thus the fun continues, and,
when refreshment time comes ono
is invited as a first course to
try ones hand at 'sn~apdragon.' A
large dish of rasins in alcohol is
brought in and put in the middle of
the table and the alcohol lighted.
The game is to snatch as many
raisins as one can from the burning
fluid and then put out the fire with
ones hands as best one can. Next
one complies with some %apprehen-
sion with ones hosts request to
bite the Loaf not being sure that
the apparently harmless mound Of
flour presented may not contain a
lighted irecracker which viii go off.
when one gets it in the mouth. but
the mound contains only q, harm-l
less ten cent piece, which" IS the
prize, and the only objection to,
competing for it is that. the rest Of
the company has already bitten and
breathed and snorted into the same.
flour n is supposed TO set ones
teeth into, and incidentally one
breathes -four all over ones black
coat.
"The. evening ends with the COM
paEatiyely harmless tug Of war;
Which consists of the company d.
viding itself in halves putting their
arms around each others waist and
pulling, each side for it's leader,
until one. OF. the other has been
pulled across the room. This results
in nothing worse than the loss Of a
few buttons, the bursting Of button
holes and a general feeling that
your clothing is all on the bias, and
you make your adieu thankful ii is.
not worse.
CAS- the result Of NIX EnglisA
party ! bear. bruises from head to,
heel, and you may be quite sure
shall have a very pressing engage
ment the next time my b~rother-in+
law entertains."-New York Press.
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