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Choosing Sides
For many games the players are divided into two opposing gro...

Have You Seen My Sheep?
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; parlor; gymnasi...

Hay Stack
Chairs are piled to a considerable height in the centre of th...

Red Line
In this game, also called Red Lion, the goal must be a straig...

See Saw Margery Daw
(Mother Goose Melody.) 1. See Saw--Margery Daw. ...

Apple Seeds
Name two wet apple seeds and stick them on forehead. First se...

Duck On A Rock
_5 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ ...

Good Morning
_10 to 60 or more players._ _Schoolroom; parlor._ ...

The Bed Boat

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



That is ordinary play. There is also a poem describing play in bed:--

My bed is like a little boat;
Nurse helps me in when I embark;
She girds me in my sailor's coat
And starts me in the dark.





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