"Do you think it was this music book?"—"No."
"Was it the arm-chair?"—"No."
"Was it the writing desk? "—"No."
"Was it this chair?"—"No."
"Was it that bracket?"—"Yes."
The performance may be repeated until the secret has been discovered.
THROWING LIGHT.
This game is a wonderfully interesting one, though, like all others, its success depends very greatly upon the amount of energy that is thrown into it by the players. A word is chosen to be the subject of conversation by two of the party, and must be known to themselves only. It should be a word to which several meanings are attached, so that the remarks made in reference to it may be ambiguous and puzzling to the rest of the company. The two persons who know the word begin a conversation, referring to the word in all its different meanings, the others being allowed to add their remarks as soon as they have guessed what the word is.
Supposing the word fixed upon to have been Hare, which is also spelt in another way, the conversation could be very easily sustained in something like the following style:—