Go to service; apply to the person who holds the forfeit for a place as maid of all work. The questions then to be asked are: “How do you wash?” “How do you iron?” “How do you make a bed?” “How do you scrub the floor?” “How do you clean knives and forks?” &c. The whole of these processes must be imitated by motions, and if the replies are satisfactory the forfeit must be given up.
Put two chairs back to back, take off your boots or shoes and jump over them. (The fun consists in a mistaken idea that the chairs are to be jumped over instead of the shoes.)
It is said there is a person you have loved since a boy,
Whose hand you must kiss ere I give you this toy,
It is not your father, or mother, or sister,
Nor cousin, nor friend, take care not to miss, sir.
[Himself.]
Make a low courtesy to each one in the room: if it is a gentleman, he must make a bow.
Recite several of Mother Goose’s melodies.
Make wry faces at every person in the room.
Admire yourself in the mirror.
Shiver and act the part of a person half frozen, or pretend to be nearly suffocated with heat.
Rush around the room and greet every one as if you had just arrived from a long and dangerous voyage.