There is great difference of opinion as to the correct way to spell your name. In the register which marks your birth, we noticed in reading the surname, that the letter E was left out of the first syllable. Do you put it in the last syllable, or is it out of that also? Did the boys ever call you Bill? Isn’t Warwickshire beautiful? What do you think of the river Avon? In what year did Bacon write Hamlet?
Of course, by this time, the celebrated Author would be guessed and some one else would leave the room, another Author be selected, and the game proceed as before.
THE ARSENAL.
The players must be seated in a circle, with the understanding that whoever smiles must pay a forfeit. No. 1 turns to his neighbor on the left and sings, while nodding his head,
Are you going to the Arsenal, the Arsenal,
And see the animals in Central Park?
The person addressed replies in the same tune, nodding,
Yes, I’m going to the Arsenal, the Arsenal,
And see the animals in Central Park.
Then both sing and nod,