For example:
No. 1. Y.
I am going to York to see Youngsters and Yachts.
No. 2. B.
I am going to Baltimore to see Belles and Beaux.
COMPOSITION.
Arrange for it beforehand, and therefore have the requisite slips of paper, and nicely sharpened lead pencils ready for all, but if you are not ready there is a certain satisfaction in knowing that part of the amusement may be in the preparation. In the latter case, have a competition as to who will make the sharpest points on the pencils, or cut the papers the most accurately; when all is prepared, however, give slips of paper and lead pencils to your friends, and ask them to write the words you will name. State that they will have fifteen minutes in which to write a composition, and put into the same every word you have mentioned. No one can look over his neighbor’s paper, and each composition must be signed with the writer’s full name.
When the time has expired, all the compositions are collected and read aloud, votes are taken as to which is the best, and the individual having received the highest number of votes is entitled to a prize.
Example: Wreath, Mausoleum, suicide, farewell, another, conjointly, starred, huntsman’s song, early, queen, historical, many, dramas.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was for many years Poet Laureate. He wrote several poems, descriptive, historical, national and otherwise. He also wrote three notable dramas, one called Becket, known as Thomas à Becket, Chancellor of England, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, another called Queen Mary, the ill-starred daughter of Henry the Eighth, and Harold, who was Earl of Wessex, afterwards King of England.