. What shall we do now? A book of suggestions for children's games and employments;. s, himself included, draw a the next says, Draw a boy climbing the tree ; thenext, Draw a balloon caught in the top branches ; the next, Draw two little girls looking up at the balloon ; and so on,until the picture is full enough. The chief interest of this gameresides in the difficulty of finding a place for everything that hasto be put in the picture. A comparison of the drawings after-wards is usually amusing. Each player draws on the upper half of the paper an historicalscene, whether from his
. What shall we do now? A book of suggestions for children's games and employments;. s, himself included, draw a the next says, Draw a boy climbing the tree ; thenext, Draw a balloon caught in the top branches ; the next, Draw two little girls looking up at the balloon ; and so on,until the picture is full enough. The chief interest of this gameresides in the difficulty of finding a place for everything that hasto be put in the picture. A comparison of the drawings after-wards is usually amusing. Each player draws on the upper half of the paper an historicalscene, whether from history proper or from family history, andappends the title, writing it along the bottom of the paper andfolding it over. The drawings are then passed on and eachplayer writes above the artists fold (or on another sheet of paper)what he thinks they are meant to represent, and folds the paperover what he has written. In the accompanying example thetitle at the bottom of the paper is what the draughtsman himselfwrote ; the others are the other players guesses. What Shall We Do Now? 45. Various Descriptions by the Flayers The Abbot of Christchurch, near Bournemouth, surveys the scaffoldingof the abbey. The end of the Paris Exhibition. An old man coming back to the home of his childhood, looks across theriver, where a duck is swimming, to the dilapidated cathedral and town whichrepresent the stately piles he remembered. The building of the Ark. The Artists Description The Last Man surveying the ruins of the Crystal Palace. 46 What Shall We Do Now? Mys^ TKe mL and ^e Pu55>^J^wmt *L^ They JJ £311-
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