StNicholas [serial] . FIG. 2. THE INITIALLETTER GAME. the hands, and if the merry contestants forgetthis, their hands may be tied behind their backs. A good variation of this game is to take a barrelhoop and suspend it from the ceiling so that itwill swing and revolve freely. From it, at inter-vals, suspend by short strings, apples, nuts, can-dies, cakes, and candle-ends. Who gets by chancea candle-end, must pay a forfeit, while the dain-ties are considered prizes of themselves. Anotherrollicking form of this game is called Bobbingfor Apples. A large tub is half-filled with water,and in it a n
StNicholas [serial] . FIG. 2. THE INITIALLETTER GAME. the hands, and if the merry contestants forgetthis, their hands may be tied behind their backs. A good variation of this game is to take a barrelhoop and suspend it from the ceiling so that itwill swing and revolve freely. From it, at inter-vals, suspend by short strings, apples, nuts, can-dies, cakes, and candle-ends. Who gets by chancea candle-end, must pay a forfeit, while the dain-ties are considered prizes of themselves. Anotherrollicking form of this game is called Bobbingfor Apples. A large tub is half-filled with water,and in it a number of apples are set floating. Pre-. FIG. 3. THE MIRROR GAME. viously, the initials of each one of the guests havebeen cut upon an apple. All those with girls in-itials are put in at one time, and the boys en-deavor to draw out the apples with their teeth,while their hands are tied behind them. Then thegirls bob likewise for the apples which bearthe boys initials. The apple secured is supposedto represent the future Fate of the lad or lassie. i907.] HALLOWEEN HAPPENINGS 53
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