TIDBITS FARMER (THE)
5 to 30 players.
House party.
Each player should be given a card or slip of paper on which the following verses are written, the last of each line being left blank. The game consists in filling in the blank spaces each with a double letter of the alphabet, as indicated in parentheses. The player wins who has the largest number correct.
| There is a farmer who is | (YY) |
| Enough to take his | (EE) |
| And study nature with his | (II) |
| And think on what he | (CC) |
He hears the chatter of the | (JJ) |
| As they each other | (TT) |
| And sees that when a tree de | (KK) |
| It makes a home for | (BB) |
A yoke of oxen will he | (UU) |
| With many haws and | (GG) |
| And their mistakes he will ex | (QQ) |
| When plowing for his | (PP) |
He little buys but much he se | (LL) |
| And therefore little | (OO) |
| And when he hoes his soil spe | (LL) |
| He also soils his h | (OO) |
TIP TAP TOE
2 to 8 players.
Indoors; out of doors.
INDOORS.—A circle is drawn on a slate or paper, the size of it varying with the number of players, a larger circle being desirable for a large number of players. This circle is intersected with straight lines, so that it is divided into a series of wedge-shaped spaces, the number of lines and spaces being also at the discretion of the players, the larger the number of players the larger the number of spaces desirable and the greater the variation in scoring. In each of these spaces numbers are written in consecutive order, one for each space, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., or the numbers may be done in multiples of five,—5, 10, 15, 20, etc. The players take turns in rotation. The one whose turn it is shuts his eyes, takes a pencil, circles it around over the diagram while he says the following verse:—
"Tip, tap, toe, here we go,
Three jolly sailor boys all in a row."