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Hat Ball
This game is very similar to Roley Boley or Nigger Baby excep...

Round And Round The Village
_6 to 30 or more players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ ...

The Slant Board
This should be seized with both hands, the feet being plac...

The Loaf Cake
A loaf cake is often made, and in it are placed a ring and a ...

Breaking The Chain
Several children are chosen as slaves and stand in the center...

Advice
Each player is given a slip of paper and asked to write a pie...

Blowing The Candle
Place a lighted candle on a table at the end of a room. Invit...

Statue Tag
Any number of players may participate in the game. The one wh...

Bruce's Heart

Source: What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games And Pastimes
Category: PLAYING ALONE, AND GAMES IN BED





Where toys become tedious, games have to be made up; and in making up
games no outside help is needed. At the same time, some games which E.
H. describes may perhaps supply a hint or two. "One little girl," she
writes, "used to find endless joy in pretending to be Douglas bearing
the heart of Bruce to the Holy Land. A long stick in the right hand
represented his spear; a stone in the left hand was the casket
containing Bruce's heart. If the grown-ups stopped to talk with some
one they met, or if there was any other excuse for running on ahead,
the little girl would rush forward waving her stick and encouraging
her men (represented by a big dog), and, after hurling her stone as
far forward as possible, and exclaiming, 'Lead on, brave heart,' she
would cast her spear in the same direction in a last effort against
the Moors, and then pretend to fall dead to the ground." This little
girl had found the story of Bruce in Tales of a Grandfather, by Sir
Walter Scott. Almost every book will yield people and events to play
at.




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