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Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium

by Jessie H. Bancroft

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Recognition

Any number of players.

Parlor; schoolroom.

Each player is given a card or slip prepared with the following questions, or the list may be dictated at the time.

What famous persons, historical or mythical, do these objects suggest?

Hatchet? (George Washington.)

A rail fence? (Abraham Lincoln.)

A kite? (Benjamin Franklin.)

A muddy cloak? (Sir Walter Raleigh.)

A lonely island? (Robinson Crusoe.)

A burning bush? (Moses.)

A ruff? (Queen Elizabeth.)

A glass slipper? (Cinderella.)

An apple? (William Tell.)

A silver lamp? (Aladdin.)

A smooth, round stone? (David.)

Long hair? (Sampson.)

A dove? (Noah.)

A pomegranate seed? (Persephone.)

A spider web? (Robert Bruce.)

A key? (Bluebeard.)

A wolf? (Red Riding Hood.)

A steamboat? (Robert Fulton.)

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