No. 83 Genteel Lady
“I, genteel lady, always genteel, come from the genteel lady, always genteel, beg leave to inform you that my ship has just come in from China laden with apricots.”
The next player has to repeat, adding some object beginning with b, such as biscuit; the next player one beginning with c, and so down the alphabet. If any one hesitates, or makes a mistake, a lighted “lamp-lighter” (New England, spill) is stuck in her hair, and she is the “one-horned,” instead of the “genteel” lady; and for two mistakes the “two-horned” lady, and so on. This juxtaposition of curls and “lamp-lighters” is by no means always safe.
Georgia.
Of this game we observe that, like several amusements familiar in this State, it is of French origin.92