The Game of Quotations.
All the members of the company being seated, each is provided with pencil and paper. Some one gives a quotation, while the other players write the speaker’s name upon their papers, and opposite it the name of the author from whom they believe he has quoted. After each in turn has given a quotation, the papers are collected and re-distributed, care being taken that no one shall receive his own. Then each repeats the quotation originally given, this time adding the name of the author; the other players correcting meanwhile the papers held by them. The person who has given the largest number of authors correctly wins a prize. For example, the first player rises and says:
Colors seen by candle-light
Do not look the same by day.
The next says:
Handsome is that handsome does.
And so on until all have given quotations. When the papers are exchanged, No. 1, again rising says:
Colors seen by candle-light
Do not look the same by day.
Mrs. Browning.
No. 2:
Handsome is that handsome does.
Goldsmith.
And so on through the list. If any player has substituted some other name for Browning or Goldsmith, or has failed to write the name of any author, it must be marked as incorrect. One player then collects and compares all the papers and announces the winner of the contest.