RECOGNITION

Any number of players.

Parlor; schoolroom.

Each player is given a card or slip prepared with the following questions, or the list may be dictated at the time.

What famous persons, historical or mythical, do these objects suggest?

  1. Hatchet? (George Washington.)
  2. A rail fence? (Abraham Lincoln.)
  3. A kite? (Benjamin Franklin.)
  4. A muddy cloak? (Sir Walter Raleigh.)
  5. A lonely island? (Robinson Crusoe.)
  6. A burning bush? (Moses.)
  7. A ruff? (Queen Elizabeth.)
  8. A glass slipper? (Cinderella.)
  9. An apple? (William Tell.)
  10. A silver lamp? (Aladdin.)
  11. A smooth, round stone? (David.)
  12. Long hair? (Sampson.)
  13. A dove? (Noah.)
  14. A pomegranate seed? (Persephone.)
  15. A spider web? (Robert Bruce.)
  16. A key? (Bluebeard.)
  17. A wolf? (Red Riding Hood.)
  18. A steamboat? (Robert Fulton.)