Pictured Quotations.
At the top of a half sheet of paper (each player having one), a picture is rudely drawn illustrating some quotation. When all the drawings are finished each player passes his paper to his right-hand neighbor, who writes his interpretation of the picture at the bottom of the paper, turning the paper over to conceal the writing and passing it on to the next player. When each has written on all the papers and they have returned to their owners, they are unfolded and their contents read aloud, the correct quotation being given last. As an instance, A draws a casement window through which is seen a face gazing at a cluster of stars. The paper is passed to No. 1, and he writes as his interpretation:
In the prison cell I sit, thinking mother dear of you.
No. 2 writes:
Mabel, little Mabel, with her face against the pane.
None guess correctly, so A explains that it illustrates this couplet from Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall:”
Many a night from yonder ivied casement ere I went to rest,
Have I looked on great Orion sloping slowly toward the West.