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Title: What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes:
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958
Subjects: Games Amusements
Publisher: New York, F.A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ides in the diffi-culty of finding a place for everything that has to be put ,in the picture. A comparison of the drawings afterward isusually amusing. Hieroglyphics, or Picture-WritingAs a change from ordinary letter-writing, Hieroglyph-ics are amusing and interesting to make. The best ex-planation is an example, such as is given on pages 52 and 53,the subject being two verses from a favorite nursery song. Pictures and TitlesEach player draws on the upper half of the paper anhistorical scene, whether from history proper or from familyhistory, and appends the title, writing it along the bottom ofthe paper and folding it over. The drawings are then passedon and each player writes above the artists fold (or on anothersheet of paper) what he thinks they are meant to represent,and folds the paper over what he has written. In the accom-panying example the title at the bottom of the paper is whatthe draughtsman himself wrote; the others are the otherplayers guesses. 56 WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW?
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Various Descriptions by the Players The Abbot of Christchurch, near Bournemouth, surveys the scaffolding of theabbey. The end of the Paris Exhibition. An old man coming back to the home of his childhood, looks across the river,where a duck is swimming, to the dilapidated cathedral and town which repre-sent the stately piles he remembered. The building of the Ark.The Artists Description , The Last Man surveying the ruins of the Crystal Palace. WRITING GAMES WRITING GAMES MAl!TY of the games under this heading look harderthan they really are. But the mere suggestion of awriting game is often enough to frighten awaytimid players who mistrust their powers of composition — al-though the result can be as funny when these powers are smallas when they are considerable. The race is not always to theswift, nor the battle to the strong. Simple AcrosticsThere are Simple Acrostics and Double Acrostics.The simple ones are very simple. When the players are allready a word is chosen by one of them,

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