CAKE WITH CANDLES.
A large cake with as many different colored candles on it as there are guests, is passed around, and each one takes a piece of it, with the candle too, choosing whatever color they wish.
As the cake passes from one to the other, the hostess reads the following prophecies, having prepared them beforehand to suit the company:
"Bright and cheery, candle red,
The year is here in which you wed.""If your candle green should be,
You will find your love at sea.""Lonely, hopeless, spinster she,
If white candle hers should be.""Happy he with candle blue,
Thy sweetheart is ever true.""She who holds a candle yellow,
Marries now a jealous fellow."
HUNT THE SQUIRREL.
To amuse the children after the Thanksgiving dinner, ask them all to join hands and form a ring. One is chosen out and is given a nut which he is to drop behind some child. As he walks around the outside of the ring he says:
"Hunt the squirrel in the woods,
I lost him, I found him.
Hunt the squirrel in the woods,
I lost him, I found him.
I won't catch you, and I won't catch you,
But I will catch you."
As he says the last line, he drops the nut behind some child. That one must pick it up, and run around the circle, trying to reach his place before the other one gets there. If he fails, he is out and the game continues as before.