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Identifier: indoorgamessocia00bake (find matches)
Title: Indoor games and socials for boys
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, G. Cornelius
Subjects: Games Boys
Publisher: New York (etc.) Association press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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h ofthe other players chooses the name of a bird, butno one may choose the owl. All the players thensit in a circle with their hands on their knees,except the Bird-catcher, who stands in the center,and tells a tale about birds, taking care to men-tion the ones he knows to have been chosen by thecompany. As each birds name is called, the ownermust imitate its note as well as he can, but whenthe owl is named, all hands must be put behindthe chairs and remain there until the next birdsname is mentioned. When the Bird-catcher cries, All the birds! the players must together givetheir various imitations of birds; should any playerfail to give the cry when his bird is named, orforget to put his hands behind his chair, he hasto change places with the Bird-catcher. (2) ALERT GROUP GAMES 109 BLOWING THE FEATHER All but one of the players are seated on thefloor^ around a sheet or tablecloth. This is heldtight about a foot and a half from the floor, afeather being placed in the middle. At a given
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BLOWING THE FEATHER signal from the leader the feather is blown fromone to the other, high and low, never allowed torest once. The player outside runs back and forth,trying to catch the feather. When he does suc-ceed, the person on whom it rested or to whom itwas nearest must take his place. (1) 110 INDOOR GAMES BUZZ A lively game is Buzz. The guests are seatedaround the dining table. The one at the head ofthe table begins by saying One/ the next * Two/*and so on; only the seventh person and everymultiple of seven must remember to say Buzz instead; if they fail to do this they drop out ofthe ring, and the next begins with * One again.The point of the game is to remember seven andthe multiples of seven^ viz.: 14^ 21^ 28, S5y etc.The one who holds out the longest is to receive aprize; the first to fall out of the ring is awardedthe booby prize. (11) CHARACTERS One is selected as * Guesser. The others makeremarks to him or question him as though hewere the character they have in mind^ un

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