. Harper's young people . e jurymen. A piece of paper is then given toeach of the remaining company, who, after due consideration,must write down the name of some one in history, the inci-dents of whose life they recollect sufficiently to be able todescribe. All having made their selection, the papers are]>n -entcd to the judge, who calls upon one after another tosubmit to an examination. Let us suppose that the first player has chosen Shakspeare;lie would be asked in what year he was born, to what conn-try he belonged, what he did to make himself remarkable,\\liat great men uere his contem
. Harper's young people . e jurymen. A piece of paper is then given toeach of the remaining company, who, after due consideration,must write down the name of some one in history, the inci-dents of whose life they recollect sufficiently to be able todescribe. All having made their selection, the papers are]>n -entcd to the judge, who calls upon one after another tosubmit to an examination. Let us suppose that the first player has chosen Shakspeare;lie would be asked in what year he was born, to what conn-try he belonged, what he did to make himself remarkable,\\liat great men uere his contemporaries, and anything elsethat niinlit occur to the judge. No one, of course, with asuperficial knowledge of history should accept the positionof juilue. nor yet that of juryman. If agreeable to the com-pany, living characters may be personified, still, historicalones are gem-rally the most interesting, and it is astonishinghow much instruction as well as real amusement may liedrawn from the name. -V. il $].:•! ill nr^. _ . • T~~*~*~ai< , . - . _\~ .1 i i / • - , •> r*>» , i tt,i I- n*< ^•^^^^-^; gMvw^^Qp sp^i/:a^y A THANKSGIVING TURKEY-SHOOT (NEW STYLE).
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