What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . Chinese Gamblingscissors. Very rapidly both players strike their right hand(clenched) into the left palm three times, and then both at thesame instant bring up the right hand in one of the three posi-tions. The winner is determined by this formula; Scissorscut paper. Stone breaks scissors. Paper wraps is if you have made your hand the stone and yourcompanion the paper, he wins. But if you had chosenthe scissors you would have won. The winner must callout the formula that fits the case, Scissors cut paper forinstance, and count
What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . Chinese Gamblingscissors. Very rapidly both players strike their right hand(clenched) into the left palm three times, and then both at thesame instant bring up the right hand in one of the three posi-tions. The winner is determined by this formula; Scissorscut paper. Stone breaks scissors. Paper wraps is if you have made your hand the stone and yourcompanion the paper, he wins. But if you had chosenthe scissors you would have won. The winner must callout the formula that fits the case, Scissors cut paper forinstance, and count is kept of the number of losses and one who comes out ahead after a half-hours contest is thewinner of that bout. PLAYING ALONE, AND GAMESIN BED. Playikg i^LONE {Facing 2)0f/e 184) PLAYING ALONE, AND GAMES IN BED Bricks AMONG the best toys with which to play alone arebricks, soldiers, balls, battledore and shuttlecock,and dolls. No one needs any hints as how to playwith them; but it might be remarked that ordinary boughtbricks being rarely what they should be, it is better, if possi-ble, to get a carpenter to make some of a more useful size,say four inches long, one and a half inches wide, and an inchthick. With a hundred of these you can do almost anythingin the way of building, and if made of tough wood they oughtto last forever. SoldiersA good game of soldiers is to see how many shots are re-quired from a cannon to kill the whole regiment. The cannoncan either be a spring cannon or a pop-gun, or a at first it is almost impossible not to clear off two or threemen with each shot, but later it becomes more difficult andexciting. NinepinsWith a box of ninepins very much the same game can beplayed. In wet weather
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