My Book of Indoor Games

About this eBook

Author

Squareman, Clarence

Credits

E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, David Newman, William Flis, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure

Subject

Games

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13022

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13022

Release Date

July 25, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.My Book of Indoor Games — by
2. 2.Clarence Squareman — (1916) — With full page illustrations from photographs loaned by The Chicago Park Commission
3. 3.INDEX OF INDOOR GAMES
4. 4.INTRODUCTION — INDOOR GAMES — Twirl the Trencher — Cross Questions and Crooked Answers — Oranges and Lemons — Musical Chairs or Going to Jerusalem — The Traveler's Alphabet — The Family Coach — Drop the Handkerchief — Magic Music — Buzz — "I Apprenticed My Son." — Cat and Mouse — The Sea King — Buff Says "Baff" — Blind Man's Buff — Puss in the Corner — The Postman — The Dwarf — How, When, and Where — Old Soldier — Bob Major — Dumb Crambo — Trades — The Schoolmaster — Rule of Contrary — Simon Says — The Bird-Catcher — French Roll — The Garden Gate
5. 5.CHARADES — The "Band-Box" Charade — Scene 1: A Street — BAND — BOX — Scene 2: A Room — The Game of Cat — Living Pictures — Acting Proverbs — Shouting Proverbs — Proverbs — The Adventurers — Postman's Knock — "Our Old Grannie Doesn't Like Tea." — "I Love My Love with an A." — Consequences — Earth, Air, Fire, and Water — Crambo — Lost and Found — "Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?" — Hunt the Slipper — Flying — The Blind Man's Wand — Judge and Jury — "Hands Up!" — Lodgings to Let — Hunt the Ring — The Stool of Repentance — The Feather — The Game of Conversation — The Gallery of Statues — The Huntsman — Hot Boiled Beans and Bacon — "My Master Bids You Do as I Do." — Red Cap and Blue Cap — It — Acting Rhymes — Man and Object — The Jolly Miller — Ruth and Jacob — Checkers — Dominoes — Green Gravel — Fives and Threes
6. 6.PAPER AND PENCIL GAMES — Birds, Beasts, and Fishes — Noughts and Crosses — "Tit, Tat, Toe"
7. 7.CARD GAMES — Speculation — All Fours — Snap — Snip, Snap, Snorum — Old Maid — Pope Joan — "I Suspect You" — Beggar My Neighbor
8. 8.RIDDLES — Thought Reading — The Cushion Dance — The Farmyard — "I Point" — Diamond Ring — The Forbidden Letter — Grand Mufti — Magic Writing — Flowers — Fox and Geese — "I Sell My Bat, I Sell My Ball" — "What's My Thought Like?" — Cat's Cradle — Personations — Frog in the Middle — Giant — Cock Fighting — Games with the Alphabet — Honey Pots — The Spelling Game — "Draw a Pail of Water." — Questions and Answers — Duck Under the Water — Wonderment — "Mother, Mother, the Pot Boils Over" — The Ants and the Grasshopper — The Magic Whistle — A Running Maze — The Coach and Four — Malaga Raisins — Sally Water — Pigeon-House Game — Oats and Beans and Barley — Bingo — Lubin Loo — The Little Lady — "Birds Fly" — I Say Stoop — Flag Race — Squirrel and Nut — Racing and Counting Scores — School-room Basket Ball — Last Man — Changing Seats — Huckle, Buckle, Beanstalk — Blackboard Relay — Hide the Thimble — Suggestive Breathing Work — The Fox Chase — Poison — Slap-Jack — Crow's Race — Riding the Bicycle — Cat and Rat — Jumping the Rope — Teacher — Bird-Catcher — Tag Me, or Heads Up — An Eraser Game — Circle Ball — Seat Tag—A School-room Game — Dead Ball — Preliminary Ball — Dodge — Third Man — Fox and Chickens — Eraser Relay — School-room Tag — The Serpentine Maze — Teacher and Class — Blackboard Relay — Tag the Wall Relay — Slow Poke (Indoors)
9. 9.TRICKS AND PUZZLES — The Dancing Egg — The Magic Thread — The Swimming Needles — The Bridge of Knives — To Balance a Coffee-Cup on the Point of a Knife — The Obstinate Cork — Six and Five Make Nine — The Vanishing Dime — To Light a Snowball with a Match — The Dancing Pea — The Balancing Spoon — The Force of a Water-Drop — The Sentinel Egg — The Coin Trick — The Wonderful Pendulum — The Revolving Pins — The Mysterious Ball — The Man with His Head the Wrong Way — To Find an Object While Blindfolded — Chinese Shadows — Hand Shadows — The Game of Shadows — Think of a Number — Living Shadows — To Guess the Two Ends of a Line of Dominoes — To Tell the Age of Any Person

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