This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...many can you furnish?" The child replies by naming all the flowers it can remember of the colour it had previously chosen, and receives a comfit for each. The purveyor then proceeds to the next child, who enumerates all the flowers it remembers of a different hue, and is also paid in the same manner. Whoever receives ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...many can you furnish?" The child replies by naming all the flowers it can remember of the colour it had previously chosen, and receives a comfit for each. The purveyor then proceeds to the next child, who enumerates all the flowers it remembers of a different hue, and is also paid in the same manner. Whoever receives most comfits is of course the winner. COMPLIMENTS. If there are both ladies and gentlemen present, a circle should be formed by seating them alternately. When this is done, one of the party, a lady, says, I should like to be such or such an animal (insect or piece of furniture), and then demands of the person to the left hand what he can make of so strange a choice. In reply, the person addressed must try to find some resemblance between the thing named and the lady, which would be complimentary to her. After doing this, the gentleman in his turn says what he should like to be, and the one on his left hand must trace some complimentary resemblance between them, and then the lady on his left proceeds in the same manner, until the circle is completed. The more repulsive and unpleasant the animal or object selected, the more difficult will it seem to find a compliment. Suppose, for instance, a lady should say: "I should like to be a snake, what do you make of so strange a choice %" The gentleman on her left might say, "because you possess the art of charming." He in turn could say, "I should like to be a book-case, what do you make of so strange a choice?" The lady on his left may be supposed to reply: "because you are handsomely made, and contain much valuable information." I LOVE MY LOVE. This game can be commenced with A, or any other letter: each speaker in turn taking the same letter, but they must...
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