Child
Please, Mrs. Day, may Nellie come
To play all day with us at home?
If Mrs. Day says 'Yes,' Nell should reply, 'Thank you, mother,' and Mrs. Day should also send a message of thanks to the boy's mother. When Nell is ready, they run off hand in hand.
19. INVITATION TO DRIVE
The house and garden described in Game No. 16, p. [32], will do quite well for this also, but the children are to be at work instead of play. One child may be fetching water, another minding the baby, and another watering the garden or going errands. A gentleman (boy) comes to the garden-gate (a space is left for the gateway), with 'carriage' and 'horses'; the 'carriage' is made in the same way as the 'coach' (Game No. 24, [p. 48]), and has two horses instead of four. Gentleman walks through the 'garden,' knocks at the door, and says:
Good morning, madam; if I may,
I'll drive your children out to-day.
Mother
I thank you, sir [beckons children to her]; come children! [children run to her].
Gentleman
Such busy, happy children, they
Shall drive with me far, far away.
Children
Oh, thank you, sir, 'twill pleasant be
To ride with you nice things to see.
Children enter carriage, waving hands to 'mother,' and saying:
Good-bye, dear mother, off we go,
The horses gallop fast, we know.
This game may be used for a class of children, or for a few only. In the former case, the majority of the scholars would, of course, be lookers-on.