If 'you have lived in those mountains that shield the mainland of our country from the Atlantic coast line you might have met him. Perhaps it would have ...
Article : 4,243 wordsModern ideas of propriety have made the play party a thing of the past in localities in which it was once most popular. Parties of this kind still obtain in some ...
Article : 236 wordsAnother game was one in which a young fellow seated himself on one of two chairs in the centre of the room and sang this alluring invitation: ...
Article : 134 wordsI recall one game invol[?] [?] much kissing that by the time twenty or more persons had entered into it each would have been kissed fifty or sixty times. When ...
Article : 367 wordsAgain three young fellows would lock arms and march up to some other young fellow in the room, singing: "Three tinkers, three tinkers, ...
Article : 145 wordsThen there were games of forfeits in which one "kept postoffice," or "measured tape," or "picked grapes," or did other things involving more or less osculatory ...
Article : 128 wordsAll of us have been so accustomed to Christmas customs and Christmas ceremonies over since we can remember anything, that we have come to take the fest val and ...
Article : 681 wordsBy the time all these games had come to an end your share of kisses may have run up into the hundreds and you were fairly juded with osculatory bliss and were ...
Article : 188 wordsAnother popular kissing game was "Sister Phoebe." When this game was on a girl took her place on a chalr in the centre of the room, while the others sang: ...
Article : 147 wordsThe world may get the best of you to-day, but bide awhile, You'll get your turn, If you'll but learn ...
Article : 176 wordsThere was a marching game with no particular name, though I believe it was sometimes called "grab." When playing this game the young fellows chose ...
Article : 201 wordsDear Santa Claus, bring back to me The little brother that I had, And never mind the toys, for he Is all I want to make me glad. ...
Article : 183 wordsThen there was the singing game called "The Weevily Whent," in the playing of which the young men chose partners and arranged themselves in two long lines ...
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Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 24 Dec 1910, Page 5
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