“Now,” said Nan, “the letters will have to be chosen or allotted, or something.”
“You begin, then, Nan, with A,” proposed Jo. “I’ll take B, next fellow C, and so on down the line.”
“That’s a good plan. We’ll adopt your suggestion, Miss Keyes.”
“We must have paper and pencils, of course,” Jo went on. “I’ll go see what I can scare up.”
“Aunt Helen has pencils galore, and writing pads, too,” Nan sang out after her.
“Very well,” responded Jo, and she was off in a twinkling to return directly with the necessary articles.
Nan had been thinking over the game. “There is another way we could do,” she said. “We could begin by having one person do the writing, incorporating the ten words, as it were; each person could then have a copy and all guess the same words so that it would give an equal chance to all. In that case one dictionary would do the work. How is that, Jack?”
“I think that is better. Let’s try that way first, and the one who wins the game can write the next set.”
“Dear, oh, me,” groaned Daniella, “then I hope I may not guess the greatest number of words, for I could never compose anything.”
“I don’t believe I could, either,” admitted Jean.