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  2. CHRISTMAS GAMES.

    Invention seems almost to have ceased as regards indoor games; and what new ones do make their appearance are not a patch upon the old ones, of which there ...

    Article : 1,043 words
  3. OUR CHRISTMAS BOX.

    No aaccount of the keepping of Christmas in the olden time over appeared without the "Wassail Bowl" having a prominent place in it. "Wassail," is ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  4. A MISERABLE CHRISTMAS DAY.

    Some years back—not so very many either —when I was the newest of new chums late from Londom, I had the misfortnne, being then newly arrived in Brisbane, to have the ...

    Article : 1,964 words
  5. WILL YOU BUY MY DUCK.

    This game, though nothing to read, is a most laughable one when played for the first time by a number of people sitting in a circle, or round a table. One who knows the game starts it by ...

    Article : 314 words
  6. TWELFTH NIGHT.

    " Christmas, sir," said Mr. Guffyn to his clubhouse crony Mr. Thorobuff, " in my opinion, is a great deal too long. Why not keep Christmasday and have done with it? What occasion is ...

    Article : 1,116 words
  7. THE PUZZLER.

    My first's part of the verb to be, And next is more like yon than me: My third, reversed, in sound will spell Part of the name of William Tell. ...

    Article : 485 words
  8. HOW TO PROTIDE A CHRISTMAS DINNER.

    We begin with beef. Mighty is the baron Beautiful, too—aye, infinitely more beautiful than the laurels of sword-flourishing conquerors —is the sprig of holly here and there stuck ...

    Article : 536 words
  9. THE WEATHERCOCK.

    This is a game of forfeits for children. Each player takes a point of the compass (too many players make confusion). For instance: A takes north, B south, C east, D west. E north-east, F ...

    Article : 113 words
  10. BLEEDING.

    This is one of the best bits of fan imaginable but the operation of bleeding can only be performed on the same person once. It is done thus:—A basin with towels is brought into the ...

    Article : 261 words
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