Apparatus for Playing a New Game.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 23rd May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Playing a New Game.
1, LANCELOT WILLIAM BENNETT, of 12 Springfield Road, Wimbledon, in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for playing a new game, wherein cats,
dogs, etc., chase mice, rats, or other of their natural prey.
The game may be played by two or more persons; when two are playing, the
apparatus required consists of two or more small counters, representing say the
mice, one or two large counters representing the cats, two pushers, one for each
person, and a box or receptacle, representing the mouse's hole. The counters are
made of ivory, bone, or other hard and polished material or composition. On
each side of the small ones is painted, embossed, stamped, printed, or otherwise
impressed a drawing or illustration of a mouse, rat, or other animal, and on the
large ones a drawing or illustration of a cat, dog, or the like animal. The pushers
are short lengths of bone, ivory, or other hard and polished material of a con-
venient shape for holding between the thumb and finger.
The game is played as follows:-The mouse's hole or refuge is placed on the
table and the mice and cats disposed around, not too close to the refuge nor to
each other. One of the players takes the side of the mice, and the other that of
the cat.
The object of the players manipulating the mice is to get them all in
the refuge without their being caught by the cat. The object of the player
manipulating the cat is of course to capture as many mice as possible. The
counters are moved by placing the end of the pusher on the top of the counter
and drawing the pusher smartly back towards the edge of the counter, this will
If the cat-counter is so
cause the counter to turn over or will project it forward.
jerked or projected to lie upon, or slightly overlap a mouse-counter, this mouse is
said to be captured and is removed from the table.
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Playing a New Game.
I, LANCELOT WILLIAM BENNETT, of 16 Springfield Road, Wimbledon, in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to apparatus for playing a new game, wherein cats,
dogs, etc. chase mice rats, or other their natural prey..
The game may be played by two or more persons; when two are playing, the
apparatus required consists of two or more small counters, representing say the
mice, one or two large counters representing the cats, two pushers one for each
person, and a box or receptacle representing the mouse's hole. The counters are
made of ivory, bone, or other hard and polished material or composition. On each
side of the small ones is painted, embossed, stamped, printed, or otherwise impressed
a drawing or illustration of a mouse, rat, or other animal, and on the large ones

page_text: a drawing or illustration of a cat, dog, or the like animal. The pushers are short
lengths of bone, ivory, or other hard and polished material of a convenient shape
for holding between the thumb and finger.
In the accompanying drawing A represents a small counter on which is the figure
of a mouse; B represents a large counter on which is the figure of a cat; C is the
pusher and 1 the mouse-hole, house, or refuge. The large counters B may have
other animals besides cats represented thereon, the smaller counters A having
representations of the natural prey of the animals marked or represented on the
large counters B. Both sets of counters A and B may be of any suitable shape
and may be cut so as to shew the profile of the animals or any part thereof if
desired. The pushers C may be of any suitable shape or design and both they
and the counters are preferably made of bone. The box, receptacle, or refuge D
is preferably made of mill-board or cardboard, and may be made of any suitable
shape, size, and design, so long as it is large enough to hold all the small
counters A. for which it is a place of safety.
The game is played as follows:-The mouse's hole or refuge D is placed on the
table, or other object or place, and the small counters or mice A and the large
counters or cats B are disposed around, not too close to the refuge D nor to each
other. One of the players takes the side of the mice or other prey, and the other
that of the cat, or other animal and each player takes a pusher C. The object of
the player manipulating the small counters or mice A is to get them all in the
refuge D without their being caught by the large counters or cats B. The object
of the player manipulating the large counters or cats B is of course to capture as
many small counters or mice A as possible. The counters are moved by placing the
end of the pusher C on the top of the counter, as shewn in the drawing, and drawing
the pusher C smartly back towards the edge of the counter, this will cause the
counter to turn over or will project it forward. If the large counter or cat B is
so jerked or projected as to lie upon, or slightly overlap one of the smaller
counters or mice A, this counter or mouse is said to be captured and is removed
from the table.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
The apparatus for playing a new game as herein described consisting of a set
of large and small counters B and A on which are respectively represented animals
and their prey, with pushers C and box or refuge D all substantially as herein-
before set forth and illustrated.
Dated this 15th day of Anil 1001
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.