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Floral Game

For this game write on separate sheets of note paper a number of stories, leaving a space here and there to be filled out by the players with a name of a flower appropriate to the sentence; then give each guest a pencil and one of the stories. After filling the spaces with names of different flowers, the stories are read aloud, which create much amusement. The following is an example of how one of the stories may be written, the dots are to represent the space, but remember not to put the name of the flower there:

A young man named Miss at Marigold four-o'clock Sweet William Marguerite Jon-Quil and his friend to go fishing. They a...... and Miss before the sun brought forth the and candied preparing a lunch of called for the young ladies who wore milkweed violet daisy morning-glory. and rose; invited rose After they gowns trimmed with said they must not go without a chaperon, so offered her services. Her gown was black silk with It was a beautiful spring day, and now and then as they Their pink. aunt Chrysanthemum pansy blossoms. poppy walked along they stopped and picked When they came to the woods the river cowslips Jon-Quil bellflowers ---to trim their hats. said, "oh, don't go that way, for On ariving at the Marguerite around and the bulrushes gave each a goldenrod and they baited them with the catchfly and placed them on the out." with a dandy line (dandelion) ; then they took their where they spent the morning fishing amid much enjoyment. Finally, as they started for home, toad-stools burdock they met a young friend, and as he went to shake Marguerite's lily hand, he slipped on yellow rose 0, acorn white beneath her dainty A lady slipper. which so embarrassed the young Johnny, jump up, man that he turned away with a I am going to be forget-me-not! more wear a bachelor's-button. bleeding heart, Jack in the pulpit exclaiming, and shall forever