Traditional Indoor And Outdoor Games - online book

An Illustrated Collection of 320+ Games & Entertainments For Kids of All Ages.

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	With Pen and Pencil	25
	would receive eight marks. Any competitor using five links would receive seven marks, one using twelve would secure nothing. For instance, to change a boy into a man, soup into fish, etc.:
	Boy Soup Cat Black Flour bay soul cot slack floor may soil dot slick flood man sail Dog slice blood mail spice brood mall space broad malt spade Bread mast shade fast shale fash whale Fish while White Strange to say, it seems impossible to change wrong into right—the words refusing to amalgamate.
	SECRET HISTORY Each player is requested to write, upon a card or folded paper, the name of some well-known woman, in history or fiction. The cards or papers are dropped into a basket, and all are then asked to write upon another set of cards the names of certain men whose names and careers are familiar to the average student of history or reader of popular literature. These cards are consigned to a second basket or receptacle of some kind. The baskets are violently shaken that the cards may be thoroughly mixed. Each player is thereupon required to withdraw a card from each basket, the one bearing a man's and the other a woman's name, and cudgel his wits to write a