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Game of Quotations

For this game supply each member of the company with paper and pencil and have each one write their name at the top of the paper. Then some one rising gives a quotation, while all the other players write their names upon their paper, and opposite it the name of the author to whom they attribute his quotation. After each in turn has given a quotation and has written the names as directed, the papers are collected and re-distributed, care being taken that no one shall receive his own. Then each again rising repeats the quotation originally given, this time giving the name of the author; the other players correcting meanwhile the papers held by them. The person who has given the largest number of authors correctly, wins a prize. For example the first player rises and says:

The next says:

Handsome is that handsome does.

Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth.

The next: "Colors seen by candle-light, Do not look the same by day.

And so on until all have given quotations. When the papers are exchanged, No. 1 again rising says:

Handsome is that handsome does.

No. 2. Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth. -Goldsmith. -Tennyson.

No. 3. Colors seen by candle-light Do not look the same by day. -Mrs. Browning.

If any player has substituted some other name for that of Browning, Tennyson or Goldsmith, or has failed to write the name of any author, it must be marked as incorrect. One person then collects and compares all the papers and announces the winner of the prize.